Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Monika Schnitzer - Biography
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Monika Schnitzer is Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research focuses on innovation, competition policy, and multinational companies.
She has held visiting professorships at Stanford University, Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.
Monika Schnitzer: “Despite inflation, the energy transition & geopolitical conflicts – investing in the future in challenging times”
Monika Schnitzer has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since April 2020 and has served as its Chair since October 2021. The council is widely known in Germany as the “Five Economic Sages”. She is the first woman to chair the council in its almost sixty-year history. In 2022, Manager Magazin named her one of the 100 most influential women in German business.
Monika Schnitzer is available for keynote speeches and interviews on current economic policy issues. Her main areas of expertise include competition policy, digitalization, and innovation.
Monika Schnitzer Keynote Topics
- Economic Policy at a Turning Point – Is Deindustrialization Looming?
- The Future of Globalization
- Challenges of the Energy Transition
- The Future of the German Economy in Times of Geopolitical Tensions
- How Sustainable Is Our Pension System?
- Inflation, the Energy Transition & Geopolitical Conflicts – Global Challenges
Monika Schnitzer has been active in economic policy consulting for more than 20 years. Among other roles, she served as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and spent eight years as Deputy Chair of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition.
Monika Schnitzer has also served on several expert commissions appointed by the German federal government. These include the Competition Law 4.0 Commission, the Expert Committee for the Future Fund for the Automotive Industry, and the Expert Group on the Transformation of the Automotive Industry. In addition, she represents the German Council of Economic Experts in the federal government’s Concerted Action initiative.
In 2008, Monika Schnitzer was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, followed by her election to the Academia Europaea in 2016 and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2021. She has been a Fellow of the European Economic Association since 2008. From 2015 to 2016, she served as Chair of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the association of German-speaking economists.
Monika Schnitzer has received numerous awards and honors for her work and contributions. In 2005, she was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, followed by the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2012 and the Bavarian European Medal in 2021 for outstanding services to Bavaria in a united Europe. Also in 2021, she received an honorary doctorate from Kiel University.