Clemens Fuest

Clemens Fuest ( born August 23, 1968 in Münster) is a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim, president of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW ) and member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Career

After graduating from high school Antonianum Geseke Fuest studied economics at the University of Bochum and the University of Mannheim, there Fuest graduated in 1991 with a diploma. In 1994 he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne, in 2000 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. From 2001 to 2008 he was professor of Economic Political Sciences at the University of Cologne. After that, he was Professor of Business Taxation at Oxford University, research director of the Centre for Business Taxation and Managing Director of the Financial Science Research Institute at the University of Cologne. In 2013 he became president of the ZEW and professor at the University of Mannheim.

Research priorities are Fuests economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy and corporate finance, labor market and social policy and local finances. The Handelsblatt counted Fuest 2006 in a ranking of the strongest research younger economists in the German-speaking area of the top 10

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance and was its chairman from 2007 to 2010, a Research Fellow of CESifo and IZA. He was also to October 2008 and again from 2013 member of the Kronberger circle.

Since 2011, Fuest is a member of the University Council of the HBK Braunschweig.

Positions

In an interview on Radio Info of 2010, Fuest expressed on the following topics:

In November 2013 Spiegel Online reported on the planned European Union Bank ( they should start from the end of 2014, it is a common rescue pot and settlement mechanism type ). How this Union should look like in detail, is very controversial. At the latest by the end of 2013 there will be an agreement. These Fuest:

Memberships

  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Finance (2007 - 2010 Chairman)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Business Service
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Economic Council of the CDU
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ernst & Young
  • Member of Kronberger circle ( since 2013) and the Steering Group of the " Commission Tax Code " of the Market Economy Foundation
  • Fellow of the Institute of the German Economy
  • Signatories of the manifesto of the New Social Market Economy Initiative " Germany needs more growth," September 2006
  • Author in the Initiative New Social Market Economy
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