Christoph Koellreuter
Founder, Managing Director and Chief Economist of BAK Basel Economics
Christoph Koellreuter
As founder, managing director and chief economist of BAK Basel Economics, Christoph
Koellreuter is well positioned to discuss trends affecting the economic and political
environment at the European, regional and industry level.
BAK Basel Economics is an economic research institute founded in 1980 as a spin-off of
Basel University and supported by 250 representatives of the civil society of the trinational
region of Basel.
Against the background of increasingly fierce competition among business locations, the
range of services offered by BAK Basel Economics focuses increasingly on the regional
perspective. BAK possesses a vast database unmatched in Europe in terms of both regional
and sector-specific differentiation and data actuality. Relying on this unique database, BAK
Basel Economics advises governments, administrations, trade associations, foundations and
companies at the national and regional level throughout Europe on matters of business
location quality and economic policy within the framework of the «IBC BAK International
Benchmark Club®» which it established in 1998.
Christoph Koellreuter (60) was educated at the Realgymasium Basel, the University of Basel
and Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He holds Master Degrees in Economics and
Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics. He has been a lecturer at the Institute of
Applied Economic Research of the University of Basel (1975 – 1992), and in summer 2000 a
Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for Business and Government,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
