Axel Dreher#
| Membership Number: | 4738 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/wiso/awi/professuren/intwipol/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Full Professor of Economics, Chair of International and Development Politics, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
- 2011 - 2014 Head of Department (2015-2017), Department of Economics, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany (2017 - 2018: Deputy Head)
- 2008 - 2011 Full Professor of Economics, Chair of Development Economics and International Economics, Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
- 2009 - 2011 Managing Director, Center for European, Governance and Development Research (cege), Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
- 2005 - 2008 Assistant Professor in Economics (Oberassistent, Chair of Applied Economics, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 2004 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Economics (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany and Thurgau Institute of Economics, Switzerland
- 2003 - 2004 Lecturer of Economics, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics, United Kingdom
- 2000 - 2003 Lecturer of Economics (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- International economics
- Political economy
- Development economics
- Public economics
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow
- 2013 Research Fellow at CEPR
- 2013 Full Member, European Development Network (EUDN)
- 2012 Faculty Associate, AidData
- 2011 Affiliated Professor, Georg-August University Goettingen
- 2011 Member of the Research Committee on Economic Policy, German Economic Association
- 2010 - 2011 Member of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August University Goettingen
- 2009 Research Fellow at CESifo
- 2009 Member of the Research Committee on Development Economics, German Economic Association
- 2009 - 2011 Managing Director, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Georg-August University Goettingen
- 2009 Principal Investigator, Courant Research Center "Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries," Georg-August University Goettingen
- 2008 Affiliated Professor at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute
