Biography

Anna Peychev obtained her doctorate from Kent Law School, University of Kent, analysing the informal legislative influence of the European Central Bank in the overhaul of EU economic governance during the sovereign debt crisis. Before joining the Robert Schuman Centre, Anna was an Early Career Visiting Fellow at the University of Turin Law Department and finished a two-year postdoc with the EUI Max Weber Programme.

Beyond academia, Dr Peychev has experience in government as advisor on Economic and Monetary Union issues to the Bulgarian Minister of Finance (Fall 2021) as well as in the Brussels think-tank sector with positions held in Carnegie Europe and, most recently, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

Her current research at the Robert Schuman Centre is focused on the legal issues surrounding the European Economic and Monetary Union, with particular attention to the European Central Bank and European Stability Mechanism.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Expert Knowledge and Authority in Transformative Times

Additional responsibilities

• Senior Editor: European Journal of Legal Studies

Recent research output

• PEYCHEVA, Anna (2023), The primacy of the European Central Bank : distributional conflicts between theory and practice in the pursuit of price stability, Article