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Jens is part of Eurasia Groups Geoeconomics team, working at the intersection of politics, macroeconomics and markets. He has worked as a macro strategist at Wellington Management and as chief European economist at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets. He spent more than a decade at the Bank of England, working mostly on monetary policy issues, and served as alternate executive director for the UK at the IMF in Washington, DC. Jens has a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, UK.