Marcel Fratzscher - Biography
Marcel Fratzscher: The Future of the Economy and Society After the Crisis. The New Humanism.
Professor Marcel Fratzscher is President of DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), one of Europe’s leading research institutions and a renowned think tank with more than 300 employees. He is also Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt University of Berlin.
His education and professional career have been shaped by numerous international assignments and reflect his global perspective as an economist. His academic path took him from Kiel, where he studied economics, to Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics, and Harvard, where he studied public policy, before completing his Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence.
Marcel Fratzscher Keynote Topics:
- Inflation, the Energy Transition & Ecology: What’s Next for Germany?
- USA, China, Russia: The New Global Political Order – and Where Does the EU Stand?
- Ukraine, Russia & the Middle East: What Impact Will Europe Face?
- Refugee Crisis & Migration Policy: Quo Vadis, Europe?
- Economic Opportunities and Risks for Germany and Europe
- Outlook for Europe: Ways Out of the Economic, Financial and Debt Crisis
- The Role of IMF and ECB Monetary Policy and Its Significance for Germany and Europe
- Germany’s Investment Gap: Why We Overestimate Our Economy and Need Europe
- An Asian Century? Economic Outlook and Opportunities
In 1996, Marcel Fratzscher moved to Indonesia for two years. There, he worked as a macroeconomist at the Harvard Institute for International Development and advised the Indonesian government on economic policy issues, both before and during the Asian financial crisis.
Further stages of his career took Marcel Fratzscher to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the World Bank in Washington, D.C., Mwaniki Associates in Kenya, and the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines. From 2001 to 2013, he worked for the European Central Bank, most recently as Head of the International Policy Analysis Division. In 2013, he moved to the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin as its President.
Marcel Fratzscher: “I advocate stronger European institutions that enable all countries to once again live up to their own responsibilities.”
In the Handelsblatt ranking of economists, Marcel Fratzscher is listed among the ten most productive researchers. His academic work has received numerous awards. In the 2014 FAZ ranking of Germany’s most influential economists, he came second.
Marcel Fratzscher is the author of the book “Die Deutschland-Illusion – wieso wir unsere Wirtschaft überschätzen und Europa brauchen” (“The Germany Illusion – Why We Overestimate Our Economy and Need Europe”), published in 2014, which quickly became a bestseller. Also in 2014, the German federal government appointed him Chairman of the independent expert commission on “Strengthening Investment in Germany”. In spring 2015, the commission presented its report and recommendations to the federal government.
Marcel Fratzscher’s research focuses primarily on economic cycles, investment and economic imbalances, European integration and monetary union, monetary policy, as well as global financial markets and currency policy. In his book “Verteilungskampf – warum Deutschland immer ungleicher wird”, he examines the economic and social consequences of high and rising inequality in Germany.