Speakers

Joost Beaumont is a senior fixed income strategist with lead responsibility for covered bonds and financials, focussing on the euro-denominated market and the Dutch market in particular. He has been part of group economics at ABN AMRO since 2010. He is a member of the financial markets research team. He is also the chairman of the statistics and data working group of the European Covered Bond Council. Previously, Joost worked as a senior European economist, focusing on the UK and French economies, while having extensive expertise in the field of the European debt crisis as well. He also worked in the international economic research team of Fortis Global Markets, while he spent nearly seven years as a policy advisor at the central bank of the Netherlands Antilles. Joost studied macroeconomics at the University of Amsterdam from 1993 to 1998.