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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, born 1968, is President of the ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Managing Director of CESifo GmbH, Professor of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the European Academy of Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Market Economy Foundation (Kronberger Kreis) and the Family Business Foundation. He was President of the IIPF (International Institute of Public Finance e.V.) from 2018 to 2021 and a member of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts from 2019 to 2022. In 2013, he was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, in 2019 the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize for 2018. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In July 2023, he was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.

His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy and European integration. Prior to his appointment in Munich, he was a professor at the Universities of Cologne (2001-2008), Oxford (2008-2013) and Mannheim (2013-2016).

He is the author of books and has written many commentaries and bylined articles on current economic policy issues in national and international journals. He also writes for newspapers such as Handelsblatt, FAZ, Die Zeit, SZ, WirtschaftsWoche, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.