Klaus F. Zimmermann

- Director of the Institute at the Study of Labor
- President of the German Institute for Economic Research Research
- Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and
- Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin

Since 1998 Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA Bonn). President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin, since 2000) and Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin (since 2001). Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London (since 1990), Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels (since 2001), Research Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at the University of California-San Diego (since 2001), advisor to the President of the EU Commission (2001-2003 and 2005-), Member of the Core Team of the Working Group on World Bank Labor Market Strategy (since 2004), Fellow of the European Economic Association (since 2004), and Chairman of the Society of the German Economic Research Institutes (ARGE) (since 2005).

Klaus F. Zimmermann studied economics and statistics at the University of Mannheim, where he received his degree as Diplom Volkswirt, his doctor degree and his habilitation. From 1989-1998 he was Full Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Munich, and Director of the SELAPO Center for Human Resources in Munich; from 1993-1995 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Munich.

CORE Research Fellow 1986 (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium). Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), 1986. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 1987. Heisenberg Fellow, 1988 1989. Picard Lecture 1994, Dartmouth College, USA. Visiting Professor: University of Dortmund and University of Munich, 1989; Humboldt University Berlin, 1991; Kyoto University, Japan, 1995; Dartmouth College, USA, 1997; University of Munich, 1998. Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Founder and Secretary of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), 1986 1992. President 1994 of the European Society for Population Economics. Programme Director for "Human Resources" (1991-1998) and "Labour Economics" (1998-2001) of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. For many years member of the Council of the European Economic Association, the European Society for Population Economics and of the German Economic Association. Many years ago Chairman of the Council of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
Since 1988 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, previously (1995-1998) Managing Editor of Economic Policy. Associate Editor of the following journals: Recherches Economiques de Louvain (since 1991), Journal of Applied Econometrics (since 1992), Labour Economics (1992-2000), European Economic Review (1993-1998), International Journal of Manpower (since 1998), Economic Bulletin (since 2000), DIW-Wochenbericht (since 2000) and DIW-Vierteljahrshefte (since 2002).

Special research interests: Labor economics, population economics, migration, industrial organization, econometrics.

Publications: Author or editor of 33 books and over 170 papers in refereed journals and collected volumes, among others: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Sociological Methods and Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Kyklos, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Economics Letters, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Open Economies Review, Politica Internationale, Quality & Quantity, Recherches Economiques de Louvain.