Achim Wambach

Since 2016 President of the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim
Since 2016 Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim
2009–2016 Director of the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne
2005–2016 Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne
2001–2005 Professor of Economics, in particular Economic Theory at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
1995–2001 Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
2000 Habilitation in Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
1995 M.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics
1994 Doctorate in Physics at the University of Oxford
1988–1991 Studies of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Cologne

Since 2024 Member of the German Ethics Council
Since 2024 Member of the Extended Board of the German Economic Association
Since 2016 Member of acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering
Since 2006 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection

2019 Friedrich August von Hayek Lecture of the Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg
2019 Social Market Economy Award of the Economic Policy Club Germany
2017 Walter Adolf Joehr Lecture of the Research Association for National Economics at the University of St. Gallen (CH)
2007 Prize for Health Economics from the German Economic Association

Bataille, M.; Wambach, A. (2023): Wahlfreiheit im Gesundheitswesen – und ihre Auswirkungen auf den Wettbewerb. Gesundheitsökonomie & Qualitätsmanagement, 28 (4), 167–171. DOI: 10.1055/a-2111-3768
Wambach, A. (2022): Klima muss sich lohnen. Ökonomische Vernunft für ein gutes Gewissen. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder.
Fugger, N.; Katok, E.; Wambach, A. (2019): Trust in procurement interactions. Management Science, 65 (11), 5110–5127. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3196
Wambach, A.; Müller, H.C. (2018): Digitaler Wohlstand für alle. Ein Update der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft ist möglich. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.

Focus of the commitment in the German Ethics Council