ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Achim Wambach is currently serving as the President at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research since April 2016. Prior to this role, Wambach was a Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne from October 2005 to April 2016. He also held the title of Director at the Institute for Economic Policy (iwp) at the University of Cologne from 2009 to 2016. Wambach previously worked as a Professor of Economics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg from October 2001 to September 2005 and as an Assistant Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1995 to 2001. Wambach received his Habilitation in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2000, his MSc in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1995, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford in 1994. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Cologne from 1988 to 1991.
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ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim is a non-profit and independent institute with the legal form of a limited liability company (GmbH). Founded in 1990, ZEW is one of Europe’s leading research institutes in economics as well as a member of the Leibniz Association, a network of outstanding research institutes in Germany. Our mission is to conduct research for the benefit of society. In our scientific work – e.g. on digitalisation and innovation, taxes and pensions, equal opportunities and climate protection – we therefore focus on practice-oriented issues. In doing so, our guiding mission is to study the optimal performance and the design of markets and institutions in Europe. The two main pillars of ZEW’s work are: • economic policy research • evidence-based policy advising Headed by Professor Achim Wambach, the president of the institute, and Claudia von Schuttenbach, the institute’s managing director, ZEW currently employs a staff of approximately 200, distributed across nine research units and two service departments. The sole shareholder of ZEW is the State of Baden-Württemberg. The Supervisory Board consists of eleven members and is chaired by UDr. Hans Reiter, Ministerial Director, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg. ZEW @ Social Media: • Twitter, English: https://twitter.com/ZEW_en • Twitter, German: https://twitter.com/ZEW • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZEWmannheim #ZEWPodcast (in German): • ZEW website: https://www.zew.de/WS1484-1 • Podigee: https://wirtschaft-forschung-debatten.podigee.io/, • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/05RuePIRWSvTCB3O2DgNOe Imprint: https://www.zew.de/WS176-1 Privacy policy: https://www.zew.de/WS175-1