Clemens Fuest | |
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 Clemens Fuest (2012) | |
| Born | 23 August 1968 |
| Nationality | German |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Financial economics |
| Institution | Ifo Institute for Economic Research |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Clemens Fuest (born 23 August 1968) is a German economist who has been President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and director of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich (LMU) since 2016.
Fuest was born in Münster in 1968 and grew up in Geseke with two brothers. His mother is French. Both parents were teachers. [1] His uncle was the financial economist Winfried Fuest.
Clemens Fuest obtained his Abitur from Gymnasium Antonianum Geseke in 1987. He studied Economics at the University of Bochum from 1987 to 1989 and continued his studies at the University of Mannheim from 1989 to 1991, earning his degree in Economics in 1991.
He pursued his doctoral studies at the University of Cologne from 1991 to 1994, receiving his Dr.rer.pol. summa cum laude in 1994 with a thesis on a fiscal constitution for the European Union. [2]
From Cologne he moved to Munich to work with the economist Bernd Huber. In 2000, he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. His research at the time focused on taxation policy and unemployment.
In 2008, he served as a member of the Independent Expert Group to the Commission on Scottish Devolution. [3] He was member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors at the German Federal Ministry of Finance. [4]
Between 2008 and 2013, Fuest was professor of business taxation at the University of Oxford and Research Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, which is part of the Saïd Business School. [5]
From March 2013 Fuest served as President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and professor at the University of Mannheim. [6] Since 2013, he has also been serving on the advisory board of the Stability Council, a body devised as part of Germany’s national implementation of the European Fiscal Compact. That same year, he joined Henrik Enderlein, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob von Weizsäcker and others in founding the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists, and political scientists. [7]
In 2014, Fuest was appointed by the Council of the European Union to be part of the High Level Group on Own Resources, led by Mario Monti. [8] Since 2015, he has been serving as one of two scientific advisers to the Commission on the Minimum Wage at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Fuest’s wife Ana María is Colombian. The couple has three sons. [1]
He is interested in literature, classical music, skiing and hiking. [1]
Clemens Fuest was awarded the Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst in 2023. [2] His academic contributions were recognized with an Honorary Doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2017. In 1998 he won the Knut Wicksell Prize of the European Public Choice Society.
In 2013 he received the Gustav Stolper Award. [15]
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