Guntram Wolff

Education

Wolff holds a PhD from the University of Bonn, studied economics in Bonn, Toulouse, Pittsburgh and Passau. He is fluent in German, English, French and has some knowledge of Bulgarian and Spanish.

Career

Wolff joined Bruegel in 2011 from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of the euro area and the reform of euro area governance. Prior to joining the commission, he was coordinating the research team on fiscal policy at Deutsche Bundesbank. He also worked as an adviser to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Wolff's research is focused on European governance, climate policy, geo- and defence economics and macroeconomics and has been published in academic journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Research Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and Journal of Banking and Finance. He regularly testifies to the European Union Finance Ministers’ ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament (Bundestag) and the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale). From 2012 until 2016, he was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique (CAE) under successive Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls. He has also been an honorary professor at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at University Erfurt.

In 2013, Wolff joined the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists founded by Jakob von Weizsäcker and Maximilian Steinbeis.

In 2018, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde appointed Wolff to the External Advisory Group on Surveillance, a group mandated to review the Fund's operational priorities through 2025. In early 2021, he was appointed by the G20 as panel member and project director in charge of the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, co-chaired by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers.

Wolff has taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh and at Université libre de Bruxelles. His columns and policy work are published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Caixin, Nikkei, El País, La Stampa, FAZ, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, BBC, ZDF, among others.

Other activities

• Member, European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR
• Member, Bulgarian Council for Economic Analyses
• Elcano Institute advisory board member
• Círculo de Empresarios, Member of the Advisory Board

Selected Publications

Book

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References

References

1. "Our researchers".
2. [https://verfassungsblog.de/author/glienicker-gruppe/ About the author (Verfassungsblog)]
3. [https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/10/30/pr18399-christine-lagarde-names-external-advisory-groups-for-2020-comprehensive-surveillance-review IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde Names External Advisory Groups for the 2020 Comprehensive Surveillance Review] [[International Monetary Fund]] (IMF), press release of October 30, 2018.
4. [https://www.bancaditalia.it/media/notizia/the-g20-establishes-a-high-level-independent-panel-on-financing-the-global-commons/ The G20 establishes a High Level Independent Panel on financing the Global Commons] [[Bank of Italy]], press release of January 27, 2021.
5. [https://circulodeempresarios.org/en/sala-de-prensa/ignacio-la-torre-new-chairman-of-the-advisory-board/ Ignacio de la Torre, new Chairman of the Advisory Board] Círculo de Empresarios, press release of 14 April 2021.