Natacha Valla is Head of the Policy and Strategy Division of the EIB and a permanent member of the CAE.  She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the groups LVMH, Accor and ASF/Cofiroute.

Between 2008 and 2014, Natacha Valla was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Global Economic Research.

Natacha Valla worked as an economist at the ECB between 2001-2008. In 2005, she was seconded at the Research Directorate of the Banque de France. She has also been a consultant for the IMF and the OECD and taught at the Universities of Florence, Paris-Dauphine, H.E.C. and Sciences-Po Paris.

Natacha Valla received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence) in 2003.