RWI Team

CV Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Christoph M. Schmidt
- Date of Birth
- 1962
Career
- since 2020
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences
- since 2020
Vice President Science and Member of the Executive Board of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- since 2020
Member of the expert panel for the promotion of top-level research at universities ("Exzellenzstrategie") of the Joint Science Conference ("Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz")
- since 2020
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Basalt AG
- since 2020
Member of the NRW Minister President's Corona Council of Experts
- since 2020
Co-Chairman of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts
- since 2019
Member of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts
- since 2018
Member of North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- since 2018
Member of the Advisory Board of NRW.BANK
- since 2017
Member of the OECD International Network on Financial Education (INFE) Research Committee
- since 2017
Member of the commission for Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
- since 2017
Research Fellow of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), London
- since 2016
Member of the advisory scientific council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
- since 2016
Member of the audit commission (acatech)
- since 2016
Member of the Board of Directors of the academy project ESYS II (2012 – 2016 Member of the Steering Committee ESYS I)
- since 2015
Member of Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
- since 2015
Member of the High-Tech Forum of the Federal Government
- 2015 - 2016
Member of the Advisory Board of the Government's 5th Report on Poverty and Wealth
- since 2014
Member of the board of trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
- since 2014
Member of the Executive Board of the National Academy of Science and Engineering
(acatech)- 2014 - 2016
Scientific Adviser of the Government’s strategy „Gut leben in Deutschland – was uns wichtig ist“
- 2013 - 2020
Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts
- since 2013
Chair of working group "Ökonomie und Innovationsforschung" of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- since 2013
Chair of the board of trustees of the Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
(deputy chairman from 05/2011 until 06/2013)- since 2013
Advising Director of the center for health economics research “CINCH – competent in competition + health”
- since 2012
Member of the Advisory Board of the jackstädt center of entrepreneurship and innovation
research- since 2011
Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2011 - 2014
Member of the Executive Council of the Verein für Socialpolitik
- 2011 - 2013
Member of the Enquete-Commission “Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität” of the German Bundestag
- 2011 - 2012
Member of the expert dialogue of the Chancellor about Germany’s future
- 2009 - 2020
Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
- since 2006
Member of the board of trustees of the “Stiftung Essen.Großstadt für Kinder“, Essen
- 2005
President of the European Society for Population Economics ESPE (1994 - 2000 council)
- since 2004
Director and Member of the Board of Management of the RGS Econ, Essen
- since 2002
RWI, President
- since 2002
Professor of Economics and Econometrics (LS Wirtschaftspolitik und Angewandte Ökonometrie) Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1999 - 2002
Program Director “Evaluation of Labor Market Policies and Projects”, Institute for the Study of Labor (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), IZA Bonn
- since 1998
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), IZA Bonn
- since 1996 - 2020
Research Fellow, Labour Economics Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR, London
- 1996 - 2002
Professor of Economics and Econometrics (LS Ökonometrie), Alfred Weber-Institut AWI, Universität Heidelberg (Full Professor, Ordinarius & Co-Director of the AWI)
- 1995 - 1998
Research Affiliate, Seminar for Labor and Population Economics SELAPO, Universität München
- 1995 - 1996
Professor of Economics and Econometrics (LS Ökonometrie), Alfred Weber-Institut AWI, Universität Heidelberg (Visiting Professor)
- 1992 - 1995
Research Affiliate, Labour Economics Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research CEPR, London
- 1991 - 1995
Research Associate, Seminar for Labor and Population Economics SELAPO, Universität München
Education
- 1995
Dr.rer.pol.habil. (Habilitation), Universität München
Doctoral thesis: “The Earnings Performance of Migrants in the German Labor Market”- 1991 - 1992
Research Assistant of Klaus F. Zimmermann
- 1991
PhD in Economics, Princeton University
Committee: O. Ashenfelter, D. Card (Principal Advisor), A. Deaton, T. Guinnane
Thesis: “Empirical Analyses of the German Labor Market: Unions, Unemployment and Wages”- 1988
M.A. in Economics, Princeton University
- 1983 - 1987
Student Assistant to Heinz König
- 1988 - 1990
Research Assistant to Angus Deaton, Richard Quandt
- 1987
Diplom-Volkswirt, Universität Mannheim
Thesis: „Anspruchslohnniveau und Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit: eine theoretische und mikroökonomische Analyse“
Supervisor: Heinz König- since 2020
Vice President Science and Member of the Executive Board of acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften
Visits to Research Institutions:
2006: Center for Labor Economics, UC Berkeley
2005: RSSS, Australian National University ANU, Canberra
2001: RSSS, Australian National University ANU, Canberra
1999: Center for Labor Economics, UC Berkeley
2000: SFB 373, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1995: SFB 373, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1994. SFB 373, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1993: National Bureau of Economic Research NBER, Boston, USA
1993: Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines STICERD at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences LSE, London, UK
1992: Université de Montréal, Canada
1990: SELAPO & Center for Economic Studies CES, Universität München
Fellowships and Awards:
2019: Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Management at Leibniz Universität Hannover
2018: Vordenker 2018 für den Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung
2016: Gustav Stolper Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik
1992–1995: Habilitandenstipendium, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
1990–1991: Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship
1987–1990: Princeton University Fellowship
1989: Olin Graduate Summer Fellowship
1987–1988: Fulbright Scholarship (Travel Grant)
Activity in Economic Associations and Research Networks:
American Economic Association, Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft (section “empirical econometrics”), Econometric Society, European Economic Association, European Society for Population Economics, Royal Economic Society, Society of Labor Economists, Verein für Socialpolitik; Canadian International Labour Network CILN
since 2010: Section „social policy“ of the Verein für Socialpolitik
since 1999: Section „econometrics“ of the Verein für Socialpolitik
since 1998: Section „industrial economics“ of the Verein für Socialpolitik
since 1993: Section „population economics“ of the Verein für Socialpolitik
2005: President of the European Society for Population Economics ESPE
1994–2000: Council of the European Society for Population Economics ESPE
1999–2001: Council of the DFG special research network SFB 544 „Die Kontrolle tropischer Infektionskrankheiten“, Heidelberg
1999: Committee (Expertenkommission) of the project „Impulse für Arbeit“ (VEBA AG, Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland, Bistums Essen in Cooperation with the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit IZA)