Otmar Issing is a German

Germany

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 economist

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, presintent of the Center for Financial Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt) and former member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank

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 (1990–1998) and of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank

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 (1998–2006). He is advisor for Goldman Sachs

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. He developed the 'two pillar' approach to monetary policy decision making that the European Central Bank (ECB)

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has adopted.
His book Der Euro. Geburt, Erfolg, Zukunft about the creation of the new European currency was published by Franz Vahlen in April 2008.