2021 - Martin Hellwig

Prof. Dr. Martin Hellwig is Director (em.) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn and professor of economics at the University of Bonn.

Professor Hellwig holds a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has held positions at universities in Stanford, Princeton, Bonn, Basel, Harvard, and Mannheim. His research interests include the economics of information and incentives, public goods and taxation, financial institutions and financial stability, network industries, and competition policy. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, an honorary foreign member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past president of the European Economic Association and the Verein für Socialpolitik, and a co-winner of the 2012 Max Planck Research Award for his work on international financial regulation.