Clemens Fuest

President and Director, CESifo Group Munich,

Since April 2016 President, Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Since April 2016 Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES)

Since April 2016 Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Since April 2016 Executive Director of CESifo GmbH

2013 - 2016 President and CEO of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim and Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim

2008 - 2013 Professor of Business Taxation and Research Director, Centre for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

2001 - 2008 Professor, Chair of Public Economics, University of Cologne

1995 - 2001 Senior Research Assistant, Chair of Public Economics, University of Munich

1991 - 1995 Research Assistant, Chair of Economic Policy, University of Cologne

Featured work

External publication

Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform

This publication proposes six reforms to improve the Eurozone’s financial stability, political cohesion, and potential for delivering prosperity.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Opinion piece

A resilient Euro needs Franco-German compromise

In a piece signed by 15 leading French and German economists, Nicolas Véron lays out a path to a more sustainable Euro. Germany will need to accept so

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Nicolas Véron, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Hélène Rey, Philippe Martin, Marcel Fratzscher, Isabel Schnabel, Markus Brunnermeier, Lars Feld, Clemens Fuest, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas