Ralph De Haas is the Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and a part-time Professor of Finance at KU Leuven. He is also a CEPR Research Fellow, a Fellow at the European Banking Center, and a Research Associate at the ZEW–Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. He received his PhD in Economics from Utrecht University and was awarded the 2014 Willem F. Duisenberg Fellowship Prize.

Ralph serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Banking & Finance. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of the European Economic Association. His research focuses on empirical banking and development economics, with interests in microcredit and financial inclusion, global banking stability, and finance and climate change.