Boris Kisselevsky is a French national. After completing a Master’s degrees in Business Administration (ESSEC, 1992), in Political Science (1994) and in Law (University of Paris II, 1995) in Paris, Boris started his professional career as an Economist at the Banque de France in 1996. In 1998, he was appointed as an Economist at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, to prepare for the arrival of the Euro. After that follows an appointment at the IMF in Washington in 2001, before taking up a position as an Eurosystem project coordinator in banking supervision at the Bank of Russia in Moscow in 2003. After returning to the ECB in Frankfurt in 2005, to work as a Principal Economist, and as a Deputy Head of the Press Division from 2009, Boris returned to Moscow in 2012 to work as a Financial Counsellor at the French Embassy. He was appointed as Deputy Head of the Outreach Division for the ECB in Frankfurt in 2015 before taking up his role as Head of the ECB’s Representative Office in Brussels in 2017. In this capacity, with the aim to identify upcoming issues of relevance to the ECB and fostering awareness of ECB policy views, he maintains close contacts with relevant counterparts in other EU institutions, bodies and fora, as well as private sector associations, organisations and think tanks, in the areas of central banking and the ECB’s banking supervisory competencies.
