Guntram B. Wolff

Guntram Wolff is an economist and European public policy scholar. He is professor of economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solvay Brussels School/ECARES/ Euroclear chair in sustainable finance), senior fellow at Bruegel and at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He was the director of Bruegel from 2013 to 2022 and of the German Council on Foreign Relations from 2022 to 2024. His research is focused on European integration, geo- and defense economics, macroeconomics and climate policy and has been published in academic journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Research Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and Journal of Banking and Finance. He regularly testifies to the European Union Finance Ministers’ ECOFIN meeting as well as Parliaments. His work is regularly cited in leading international and national media.