- Contact: klaus.f.zimmermann@gmail.com
- ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2804-5692
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/kfzimmermann (@kfzimmermann)
- Short Bio English | German| Chinese
- CV with publications English |
- RePEc ranks Zimmermann no. 109 on its world list of 49,761 economists. Top 0.2% (March 2017)
- Special research interests: Population, labor, development, migration
- Blogs: World Bank Jobs & Development Blog, VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal, Linkedin, Huffington Post Englisch | German
- Google Scholar Citations x ResearchGate
Professor Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann is
- Co – Director, POP – Centre for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT (United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology), Maastricht
- President, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- President, Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES), 2019-
- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics
- Professor of Economics (Wirtschaftliche Staatswissenschaften), Bonn University (em.)
- Honorary Professor at Maastricht University, Department of Economics (Honorary Chair in “Economics and Human Resources Innovation”, em.)
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Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin
- Honorary Professor at the Renmin University of China, Beijing, since 2006; Visiting Professor October 2018
- Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
- Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature
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Member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, German text
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Member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences
- Section Chair “Economics, Business and Management Sciences”, Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, 2014 – 2021.
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Member of the Regional Science Academy
- Research Fellow, Center for Evaluation and Development, University of Mannheim
- Senior Fellow of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
- Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
- Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
- Fellow of the European Economic Association
- IEA Fellow Award 2022 of the International Economic Association
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development
- Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of LIEPP (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques), Sciences Po Paris
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Weis[s]e Wirtschaft
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Global Economic Problems (IGEP); the IGEP Advisory Board.
- Associate Member of the Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University
- Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts
- Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank
- John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Harvard University, 2016
- Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017
- Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, The University of Melbourne, The Melbourne Institute
- EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society
Previous positions (selection)
- George Soros Chair, School of Public Policy, Central European University (CEU), April-June (Spring Term) 2019, Budapest
- Visiting Professor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. March 2019
- Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017, visiting Bellagio September/October 2017
- Eminent Research Scholar & Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, The Melbourne Institute, November & December 2017
- Visiting Professor, Macquarie University, Nov. 2017
- Visiting Professor Princeton University, Visiting Faculty of the Department of Economics and its Industrial Relations Section
- Visiting Professor Harvard University, Center for European Studies, John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Center for European Studies
- Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- Professorships at University of Pennsylvania, Munich University, Kyoto University and Dartmouth College, among others.
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