Prof. Dr. Guntram Wolff

Guntram is an economist, senior fellow at Bruegel, and a Professor honoris causa at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. From 2022-24, he was the Director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations. From 2013-22, he directed Bruegel, which under his leadership has become one of the top three global think tanks. He works on European political economy, geoeconomics, climate change, and macroeconomics. Guntram joined Bruegel in 2011 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. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn, studied in Bonn, Toulouse, Pittsburgh, and Passau, and previously taught economics at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Brussels.