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 5^th 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)