Contact & CV

• 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, Wirtschaftliche Freiheit
• 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, School of Business and Economics (Honorary Chair in “Economics and Human Resources Innovation”, em.)
• 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 Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR), Jinan University
• Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
• Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature

• Member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, member bio
  Section 25 “Economics and Empirical Social Sciences” Chair (“Obmann”) and elected Senator of Leopoldina, 2023-2027.
• 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.
• 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 (EEA)
• 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 Senate of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (2005 – 2007)

• Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; announcement.
• Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Harvard University, 2016
• Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017
• Australian Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, The University of Melbourne, The Melbourne Institute
• EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society
• IEA Fellow Award 2022 of the International Economic Association

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), Bonn
• 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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