International roundtable discussion: From Financial Literacy to Financial Stability

Annamaria Lusardi is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Initiative for Financial Decision-Making, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at Stanford University. Previously, she was University Professor at The George Washington University and, before that, she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she started her academic career. She has also taught at Princeton University, the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and Booth School of Business, Columbia Business School and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. From 2017 to 2023, she was the Director of the Italian Financial Education Committee in charge of designing and implementing a national strategy for financial literacy in Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Vaasa in Finland.

Primož Dolenc is the Governor of Banka Slovenije, and the president of its Governing Board. He assumed the function in March 2026 for a term of six years, after being appointed by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia.

He has been working at Banka Slovenije since 2016, for most of the time as a vice-governor and a member of the Governing Board. The National Assembly appointed him to this function in 2016, and again in 2022. For most of his term as vice-governor he also held the position of deputy-governor, and has headed Banka Slovenije for two periods in the absence of a governor. 

He is a graduate of the University of Ljubljana’s School of Economics and Business, where he also completed his master’s and doctorate. He defended his doctoral dissertation on asset management and government debt in 2006. Since 2000 he has held advisory and managerial positions at several financial institutions. He was also a full professor and researcher at the University of Primorska, with responsibility for banking and finance.

Peter Kažimír has been the Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia since June 2019 and, in this capacity, a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. Prior to assuming the role of Governor at the central bank, he served as Finance Minister from 2012 to 2019. Before that, he held the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance from 2006 to 2010. During his tenure as Finance Minister, in the latter half of 2016, as part of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union, he officially represented the European Union and the Eurogroup at the G20 and G7 meetings.

Madis Müller is the Governor of Eesti Pank and a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, which sets monetary policy for the euro area. Appointed in June 2019, he previously served as Eesti Pank’s Deputy Governor, held senior roles at the IFC and the World Bank, and advised Estonia’s Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. He holds finance degrees from George Washington University and Estonian Business School, and is both a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and FRM (Financial Risk Manager) charterholder.

Irena Radović, the first woman to lead Montenegro’s Central Bank since 2023, leads reforms in financial stability, EU regulatory alignment, and payment system modernization, including SEPA integration. Chairing the National Financial Stability Council, she advances Montenegro’s EU accession in nine negotiation chapters, and brings experience from diplomacy, academia, and development finance to central banking leadership.

Bojan Fras was appointed Vice governor of the Croatian National Bank by the Croatian Parliament on 5 July 2013 whereas as of 15 July 2025 he serves his third term. Mr Fras coordinates and oversees legal function,  market conduct supervision and monitoring of consumer protection at the Croatian National Bank. He has been involved extensively in regulatory work and implementation activities including also with regard to the introduction of euro in Croatia.

Before joining the Croatian National Bank Mr Fras spent his entire professional career as a practicing lawyer and was a co-founding partner of one of the leading commercial law firms in Croatia where he remained active as a senior partner until appointment to the current position. During that period, he regularly advised local and international companies, financial institutions and public entities in their dealings in Croatia and in the region, primarily in relation to banking, financing, investment and M&A legal work.

Mr Fras graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb with a degree in Law in 1988.

Petar Chobanov is the Deputy Governor in charge of the Banking Department and a Member of the Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank elected by the 49th National Assembly on 26 July 2023 for a six-year term of office. Mr Chobanov holds a Master’s degree in Macroeconomics and a PhD in Finance, Money Circulation, Credit, and Insurance.

Since October 2023 Mr Chobanov has been a Member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board; Since October 2024 - Member of the Single Resolution Board; Since October 2024 -Representative of the Bulgarian National Bank in the Economic and Financial Committee;

Since August 2025, he is a member of the High-Level Task Force on the Integrated Reporting Framework of the European System of Central Banks. Mr Chobanov has also been an Alternate Member of the High-Level Task Force on the Digital Euro (Digital euro HLTF) and a Member of the High-Level Task Force on Appia since January 2026.

Josef Meichenitsch is a member of the Governing Board of the Austrian Central Bank, responsible for payments, financial literacy and IT. He is a member of the ECB High-Level Task Force on the Digital Euro, chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Mint and member of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Financial Market Authority. Before joining the Governing Board he held roles at the Austrian Central Bank, the Austrian Financial Market Authority and the Central Bank of Ireland. Josef is an economist by training.