Clemens Fuest

Clemens Fuest is President of the ifo Institute, Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Executive Director of CESifo GmbH.

Clemens Fuest has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance since 2003 (head of the board from 2007 to 2010), a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Clemens Fuest is also a Board Member of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF; President August 2018 – August 2021). Furthermore, he belongs to the German-French Council of Economic Experts, the European Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of Ernst & Young GmbH. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft (Kronberger Kreis) and the Stiftung Familienunternehmen.

In 2013, he was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), in 2019 the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize for the year 2018. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy, and European integration.