Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy (Hungarian:báró Lámfalussy Sándor, (26 April 1929 – 9 May 2015), was a Hungarian-born Belgian economist and central banker. Born in Kapuvár, Hungary, Lamfalussy left his native country in 1949. He studied at the Catholic University of Leuven and Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his doctorate in economics. He later taught at the Université catholique de Louvain and Yale. From 1994 to 1997 he was founding president of the European Monetary Institute in Frankfurt, forerunner to the European Central Bank.