Marcel Fratzscher

Marcel Fratzscher is President of DIW Berlin, a leading research institute and think tank in Europe, Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Humboldt-University Berlin, and Member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Economy of Germany. He previously worked in management positions at the European Central Bank, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) before and during the Asian financial crisis in 1996-98, the World Bank and in various parts of Asia and Africa. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI); a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; a B.A. in Philoso­phy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, and a Vordiplom in Economics from Kiel University. He is a European citizen, having grown up and having obtained his primary and secondary education in Germany. Personal Homepage