Harald Gruber

Head of the Digital Economy division at the Projects Directorate, European Investment Bank

Harald Gruber is head of the Digital Economy division at the Projects Directorate of the European Investment Bank based in Luxembourg. He oversees project appraisal in the Digital Economy sectors and advises on the Bank’s business strategy with respect to financing of broadband infrastructure and innovation policy. He is member of the IPCEI Steering Committee on High Performance Computing and Big Data.

He is on the editorial board of academic journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.

He has published the book “The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications” with Cambridge University Press and published more than 20 articles refereed journals such as Economic Policy, European Economic Review, Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy and International Journal of Industrial Organisation.

He has been also professor at Bocconi University (Milan) for telecommunications economics.

Harald Gruber holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.