Monika Schnitzer University of Munich and CEPR

Monika Schnitzer holds a Chair in Comparative Economics at LMU Munich since 1996. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn in 1991. She has been a Visiting Academic at Boston University, MIT, Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. Since 2020, Monika Schnitzer is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, and since 2001 she has served on the Council of Economic Advisors of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy in Germany. From 2011 to 2019, she was Deputy Chairwoman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation for the German Federal Government. She is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy, Competition DG, of the European Commission. From 2003 to 2007, she was a member of the Council of the European Economic Association. From 2015 to 2016 she was President of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Association of German speaking economists). In 2008 she was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Science.