Henrik Enderlein

Henrik Enderlein

Henrik Enderlein (13. September 1974) is a German economist. He is director of the Jacques Delors Institute in Berlin and Professor of Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. From 2001 to 2003, he has worked as an economist at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt before accepting a position as assistant professor in economy at Freie Universität in Berlin. He has also been a guest professor at the Harvard Kennedy School (Chaire Pierre Keller, 2012-2013) and at Duke University (Chaire Fulbright, 2006-2007). He currently teaches at the Hertie School of Governance.^[1][2]

Life and career

Enderlein spent his childhood in Tübingen, a town in the German State of Baden-Württemberg. His father is Hinrich Enderlein, a politician for the Free Democratic Party of Germany. He gratuaded his Abitur in a Waldorf School in 1994. He went on to study Political Science and Economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies in France, this was followed by a doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in New York from 1998 to 1999 and from 1999 to 2001 he became a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. His thesis supervisor there was Fritz W. Scharpf.^[3]

From December 2011 until May 2012, Enderlein served as member of the Jacques Delors Institute’s Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa group, a high-level expert group to reflect on the reform of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.^[4] In 2013, he joined Marcel Fratzscher, Clemens Fuest, Jakob von Weizsäcker and others in founding the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists.^[5] Since 2013, he has also been serving on the advisory board of the Stability Council, a body devised as part of Germany’s national implementation of the European Fiscal Compact.

Research

Enderlein's main areas of academic interest are in the economic policy-making of Europe, the study of Financial Crisis, Sovereign debt and the Euro and its subsequent Euro-Zone Crisis, the Euro being the chosen topic of his P.hD thesis. He currently teaches at the Hertie School of Governance in Germany.^[6]

Other activities

• Institute for European Politics (IEP), Member of the Academic Advisory Board^[7]
• Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft of Deutsche Bank, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2013)^[8]
• Broader European Leadership Agenda (BELA), Member of the Circle of Active Supporters^[9]
• Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study, Member of the Academic Advisory Board^[10]
• Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft, Member of the Board of Trustees^[11]
• Stiftung Genshagen, Member of the Advisory Board^[12]
• Studienkolleg zu Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board
• European Consortium for Political Research, Member
• Verein für Socialpolitik, Member

Further reading

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/20/greece-germany-eu-bailout http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/france-germany-european-reform-and-cooperation-by-henrik-enderlein-and-jean-pisani-ferry-2014-11 http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/articles/meet-henrik-enderlein https://www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/images/Downloads/core_faculty/Henrik_Enderlein/HenrikEnderlein-Publications.pdf http://www.henrik-enderlein.de/publications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfvnDaotufo

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