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Alfred Steinherr wird kommissarischer Leiter der Abteilung Konjunktur

Press Release of December 1, 2004

From January 1, 2005 on, Prof. Dr. Alfred Steinherr will act as interim Head of Department of Macro Analysis and Forecasting at DIW Berlin. Steinherr (60) will fulfill this function in addition to his position as Chief Economist at the European Investment Bank (EIB). Alfred Steinherr has served as Chief Economist at the EIB since 1995. Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of DIW Berlin, said: “We are very delighted that we were able to engage an internationally renowned economist with excellent macro-economic competencies like Alfred Steinherr. He has intense and widespread experience in the fields of political consulting and research, and furthermore has outstandingly published in scientific journals. Alfred Steinherr will act as Head of Department of Macro Analysis and Forecasting until the future Head of Department will have been nominated and he will consult with the Recruitment Committee with regard to the applicants.” Alfred Steinherr added: “It is a great challenge. I’m happy to get the chance to be part of this important change process in Germany and at DIW Berlin.”
For several years now, the Heads of Department at DIW Berlin have been appointed jointly with universities in Berlin or Brandenburg. By this means, the Institute intends to intensify the close networking of universities and research establishments and thus follow a recommendation of the Leibniz Association to which DIW Berlin belongs. In this respect, most Heads of Departments at DIW Berlin are already closely linked with a university in Berlin or Brandenburg.

Besides his work at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, Alfred Steinherr, who studied economics and mathematics in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Canada and the U.S., is also Professor at the University of Bozen, of which he was the Founding Director in 1998. Prior to that, he had spent several years at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, as a Professor for International Economics and Finance. Other stations of Alfred Steinherr’s career were the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., and the European Commission. He is author of numerous articles and books. His new book “Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe – Planting the Seeds“, which is co-written by Daniel Gros, was published in March 2004 by Cambridge University Press.
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