Klaus F. Zimmermann#
| Membership Number: | 2825 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.klausfzimmermann.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2021 Section Chair "Economics, Business and Management Sciences", AE
- 2019 Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
- 2019 George Soros Chair Professor, School of Public Policy, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
- 2019 President, Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES)
- 2019 Visiting Professor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
- 2017 Visiting Professor, Macquarie University
- 2017 Visiting Professor, Melbourne University
- 2017 President, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- 2017 Editor, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer
- 2016 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Princeton University
- 2016 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
- 2016 - 2019 Honorary Professor, Maastricht University; 2020 Professor; 2021- Professor Emeritus
- 2016 Co-Director POP at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht
- 2012 Founding Editor-in-Chief, IZA World of Labor (acting 2012 - 2016)
- 1998 Full Professor of Economics, Bonn University, Emeritus since 2017
- 1998 Founding Director IZA, Bonn (acting 1998 - 2016)
- 2001 Honorary Professor, Free University Berlin
- 2000 - 2011 President DIW, Berlin
- 1989 - 1998 Full Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Munich
- 1988 Managing Editor & Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Population Economics
Fields of Scholarship
- Labor economics
- Population economics
- Migration
- Industrial organization
- Econometrics
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Heisenberg Fellow
- 1997 Visiting William B. and Dewilda N. Harris German-Dartmouth Professorship, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
- 1998 Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award, Canada Council for Arts
- Since 2001 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Since 2001 Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin
- Since 2004 Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA)
- Since 2006 Honorary Professor at the Renmin University of China
- 2013 Outstanding Contribution Award of the European Investment Bank for excellence in social and economic research and its implementation and diffusion. (EIB Prize 2013)
- Since 2016 Honorary Professor Maastricht University
- Since 2016 Member of the Regional Science Academy
- Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017
- EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society
- 2019 George Soros Chair Professor, School of Public Policy, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
- 2019 Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
