Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 13
Former ECB Rate-Setter Madis Muller Joins Estonia Police Unit After 7-Year Central Bank Stint
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 13

Former ECB Rate-Setter Madis Muller Joins Estonia Police Unit After 7-Year Central Bank Stint

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 13

Summary

  • Madis Muller is reporting for duty as a volunteer in Estonia’s police criminal-investigations unit, days after ending his seven-year term as central bank governor.
  • Basic training is already complete, covering tasks such as radio procedures, and he is due to receive his dark-blue police uniform in the coming weeks.
  • Muller had been weighing more conventional post-central-bank paths in academia and international institutions before taking on the volunteer policing role.
  • The move marks an unusual career shift for a former European Central Bank rate-setter known as a policy hawk.

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