Lars P Feld

About Lars P Feld

Professor Dr Lars P Feld is the current President of the Walter Eucken Institute and keynote speaker.

Professor Feld is also the chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics at Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. His work and research focuses on economic and fiscal policies, the emerging field of New Political Economy and the economic analysis of law.

After completing his studies in economics, Feld graduated from St Gallen University in 1999 and qualified for a professorship in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a professor of economics, with a focus on public Finance, at Philipps-University Marburg. From 2006 to 2010 Feld held a similar position at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.

He is also a permanent guest professor at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, as well as a member of Leopoldina (the German National Academy of the Sciences), the Kronberger Kreis scientific council of the think tank Stiftung Marktwirtschaft and the Mont Pelerin Society.

Since 2003, Professor Feld has been a member of the Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of finance. In 2007, he was named an expert to the Bundesrat and Bundestag commission for the modernization of federal financial relations (Federalism Commission II) and contributed as an advisor on the subject of the new German debt brake measures.

In March 2011, Professor Feld was, at the recommendation of the federal government, appointed to the German Council of Economic Experts.