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The name of the Belgian-American economist Gregory Daco is increasingly mentioned in the media.
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In the economic and financial field in New York, we knew Georges Ugeux. But there is another Belgian economist active in the Big Apple. This is Gregory Daco, the chief US economist of the Oxford Economics analysis office. Regularly cited in the media (Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, etc.), he was seen being questioned on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange by CNBC.
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“Greg” Daco, who today has dual citizenship, was born in Brussels in 1984. Where does his attraction to the United States come from? “My father worked at the National Bank of Belgium and was sent as Belgian representative to the International Monetary Fund, so I lived in Washington for 8 years as a child“, he explains.
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“A lasting solution for the economy requires a lasting solution for the health crisis.”
Gregory Daco
Chief Economist USA, Oxford Economics
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Back in Belgium, he did a bachelor’s degree in economics at UCLouvain, then a master’s degree in business management. He then worked briefly in the Economic Department of the Belgian Embassy in Australia, at the Belgian Permanent Representation to the United Nations in Geneva and at the Planning Bureau.
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A bit of luck …
“I then realized that I wanted to work in the field of international macroeconomics.” Direction Boston to get a master’s degree at Boston University before finding (“a little by chance and thanks to my wife”, he says) a position as an economist in the firm Global Insight (now IHS Markit). Since 2013 he has been in New York for Oxford Economics which has more than 250 economists and analysts around the world..
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He of course followed the nomination of Joe Biden. For him, a lasting solution for the economy requires a lasting solution for the health crisis. If all goes well on the vaccination front, US growth could rebound by 6% in 2021, predicts this economist, who is also very active on Twitter.
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