Jens Suedekum

Professor of International Economics, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf

Jens Suedekum is Professor of International Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics at Heinrich-Heine-University. He is a specialist on global trade, digitalization and labour markets, and published widely in leading academic peer-reviewed journals. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jens is among the five most influential economists in the German-speaking world. He is a member of the scientific board at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, and has been an advisor to numerous (inter-)national organizations including the World Trade Organization (WTO),
the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission, Bundesbank, and various political parties and public interest groups.

Jens is a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and has been the editor of the Journal of Regional Science (2015-2018). He has received numerous awards for his research, including the EPAINOS Prize of the European Regional Science Association.

He holds a PhD from Georg-August-University Göttingen and studied economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).