Guntram Wolff


Guntram Wolff is a German economist and the Director of Bruegel since June 2013. Under his leadership, Bruegel has been ranked the top international think tank outside of the US by the University of Pennsylvania Think tank ranking. His research is focused on the European economy and governance, fiscal and monetary policy, and global finance. He regularly testifies to the European Union Finance Ministers’ ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament and the French Parliament. From 2012 until 2016, he was a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique under successive Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls.

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 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.
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.
Wolff has taught economics at the University of Pittsburgh and at Université libre de Bruxelles. He has published numerous papers in leading academic journals. 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

His publications are available on . Recent Bruegel publications can be found here: http://bruegel.org/author/guntram-b-wolff/
Selected academic journal publications include