Manuel Muñoz graduated from the BSE Master's in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets in 2013. He went on to join the European Central Bank as a Research Assistant in the Monetary Policy Research Division before moving on to work as a State Economist in the Spanish Ministry of Economy's General Secretariat of the Treasury and Financial Policy, where he served as Head of Service for the Financial Policy and Regulation Division. He then returned to the ECB where he is now Senior Lead Expert – DG Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability.