Javier Suarez is a Professor of Finance at CEMFI in Madrid. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR and a Research Associate at ECGI. He holds his PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. His research and teaching focus primarily on corporate finance and banking, with a particular emphasis on bank regulation, the relationship between macroeconomics and banking, and macroprudential policies.

From 2013 to 2014, he served as an academic advisor to the Macro-prudential Research Network (MaRs) of the European System of Central Banks. Since March 2015, he has been a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).