Clemens Fuest

Clemens Fuest (born 23 August 1968) is a German economist. He has been President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research since 2016. As the Financial Times wrote in late 2015, Fuest’s status as a research economist in both the UK and Germany “has propelled him to prominence.”

Between 2008 and 2013, Fuest was a professor of business taxation at the University of Oxford and Research Director of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, which is part of the Saïd Business School. In 2008, he served as a member of the Independent Expert Group to the Commission on Scottish Devolution. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at the German Federal Ministry of Finance.

From March 2013 Fuest served as President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and professor at the University of Mannheim. Since 2013, he has also been serving on the advisory board of the Stability Council, a body devised as part of Germany’s national implementation of the European Fiscal Compact. That same year, he joined Henrik Enderlein, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob von Weizsäcker and others in founding the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists.

In 2014, Fuest was appointed by the Council of the European Union to be part of the High Level Group on Own Resources, led by Mario Monti. Since 2015, he has been serving as one of two scientific advisers to the Commission on the Minimum Wage at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

• Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Member of the University Council (since 2011)
• European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Member (since 2010)
• International Institute of Public Finance (IIFP), Vice President of the Board (since 2009)
• Ernst & Young Germany, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2008)
• Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation, Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize, Member of the Jury
• International Institute of Public Finance (IIFP), Vice President of the Board
• Wirtschaftsrat der CDU, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Fellow (since 2007)
• Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation, Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize, Member of the Jury
• Canadian Journal of Economics, Advisory Editor
• Fiscal Studies, Member of the Editorial Board
• German Academy of Science and Engineering, Member
• American Economic Association, Member

In addition, Fuest is on the editorial board of the academic journal ORDO.

• 2013 – Gustav Stolper Award

• ZEW President Clemens Fuest Receives Gustav Stolper Award Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), press release of September 6, 2013.