Associate Members
Ayoze Alfageme
Ayoze Alfageme is a PhD candidate in Political Economy and a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva in the department of History, Economics and Society since April, 2019. In 2013, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona. After finishing his master studies in International Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, he continued working at the same university as lecturer in macroeconomics and international economics from 2017 to 2019.
Elmar Altvater (1938 - † 2018)
Elmar Altvater was Professor for International Political Economy at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Sciences at the Free Univerity of Berlin until 2004. He died on 1 May 2018.
Ingo Bode
Prof. Dr. Ingo Bode is professor for social policy with a focus on social and organizational principles at the University of Kassel. He deals with structures and developments in the area of social welfare and welfare state regulation.
Stefano Di Bucchianico
Dr. Stefano Di Bucchianico is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Salerno (Italy). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Roma Tre. He is a member of the PhD Council at the University of Roma Tre and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Political Economy. His research interests mainly focus on the following topics: Secular Stagnation, financialization and income distribution, monetary policy and inequality. He is Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 PNRR Project "Demetra", that is meant to assess the role of public expenditure in innovation within the ecological transition.
Johannes Buchner
Johannes Buchner, Dr. rer. nat., works at the department for political strategy and fundamental policy questions at the Federal Office of the party DIE LINKE since May 2019. His responsibilities include european economic policy. He also deals with questions regarding climate change and environmental policy as well as the strategic options for progressive governments on a national level. Prior to this, he was working for two years as personal assistant to the President of the European Left, Dr. Gregor Gysi.
Daniel Detzer
Daniel Detzer, Dr. rer. pol., works as an advisor on financial market policies at the German Bundestag. He was a visiting Professor of Economics, in particular Macroeconomics and International Economics, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL). As a research associate in the project “Financialisation, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development” at the BSEL his research focused on the German financial system and its regulation as well as on the general macroeconomic developments in Germany and the Euro area. He has a practical background in banking, having worked for German and international financial institutions.
Nina Dodig
Nina Dodig is an associate consultant working on projects in the health sector. She previously worked as a research associate on the project “Financialisation, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development” and as a lecturer in Macroeconomics and in European Economic Policy at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL) from 2012 to 2016.
Dirk Ehnts
Dr. rer. pol. Dirk Ehnts is a research assistant at the Chair of European Economics at the TU Chemnitz. Previously, Ehnts was a deputy professor at the European University of Flensburg and a deputy professor of Latin American macroeconomics at the Free University of Berlin. Prior to that, he was a guest lecturer in economics, in particular macroeconomics, money and currency, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (2012-2014).
Alexander Gallas
Alexander Gallas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Kassel, and one of the editors of the Global Labour Journal. He has a PhD and an MA in Sociology, both from the University of Lancaster, and a Magister Artium in Philosophy from FU Berlin. In his monograph The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis (Leiden, 2015), he analyses the reorganisation of class relations under the Conservative governments in Britain in the 1980s and 90s.
Carmen Giovanazzi
Carmen Giovanazzi is a doctoral student in the PhD program "The Political Economy of Inequality" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She holds a Master's degree in International Economics from HWR Berlin and in Economic Analysis and Policy from Paris Université 7 & 13. Before starting her PhD, she was the head of office of fiscal policymaker Fabio De Masi. She also teaches the annual macroeconomics repetition course for master's students at HWR Berlin.
Sarah Godar
Sarah Godar is a researcher at the EU Tax Observatory. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague. The title of her thesis is: Tax avoidance by multinational corporations: An empirical analysis based on firm-level data.
Lukas Handley
Lukas Handley is a research associate in the research project ‘Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South’ at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He holds a Master's degree in Economic Analysis and Policy from the University of Paris Sorbonne Nord and in International Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He completed his Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney.
Christoph Hermann
Dr. Christoph Hermann visiting faculty member and visiting researcher, University of California, Berkeley. Before visiting professor at HWR (2012-2013), lecturer at the University of Vienna and senior researcher at the Working Life Research Centre in Vienna.
Peter Herrmann
Peter Herrmann studied sociology (Bielefeld, FRG), economics (Hamburg, FRG) and political science (Leipzig, GDR). After obtaining his doctorate in Bremen, he worked in various teaching and research positions in the fields of social policy, social economy, economics and law abroad (including China, Cuba, Finland, France, Ireland, Hungary and Russia).
Milka Kazandziska
MA International Economics, PhD student at the Universität Kassel. Milka Kazandziska ist a Lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and teaches ‘Macroeconomics I: Business Cycle and Employment’ and ‘Macroeconomics II: The World Market and the Currency System’.
Philipp Kenel
Philipp Kenel is working as a researcher and lecturer at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, University of Applied Sciences. He completed a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London titled ‘Social Entrepreneurship Discourse(s) in Germany: the First Two Decades’.
Karsten Kohler
Karsten Kohler is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Leeds, UK. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London (2019 - 2021), where he obtained his PhD on the role of flexible exchange rates in emerging market business cycles in 2019.
Nikos Markogiannakis
Nikos Markogiannakis is a Ph.D. candidate of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. His Ph.D. project approaches questions regarding the Political Economy of Logistics Infrastructures, having as starting point the recent supply chain disruptions (COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine War) and the consequent policy responses with a focus on the three biggest European ports: Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg.
Anne Martin
Anne Martin is a research associate for the project "Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South" at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She holds a Master's degree in Political Economy of European Integration from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and History from the Evergreen State College in the United States.
Lukas Meisner
Lukas Meisner is fellow at the SFB Structural Change of Property (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) and the Institute for Critical Theory Berlin (InkriT); from 2025 onwards, he will be the editor of Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften. In 2023, he completed his PhD in Philosophy between the Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice), the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Erfurt) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin).
Harrison K. Mwilima
Harrison Kalunga Mwilima is a part-time lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He has taught several courses at the Berlin School of Economics and Law including regional studies, political system of the European Union and the role of the European Union in a Multipolar World. In addition to teaching, Mwilima works as an independent journalist and consultant. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University Berlin, a M.A in Political Economy of European Integration from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a B.A in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Dar es Salaam.
Zeynep Nettekoven
Zeynep Nettekoven is a Lecturer of Economics and academic program coordinator at the German-Israeli International Certificate Program at Europäische Akademie der Arbeit at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She majored in Economics with a minor in Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. She earned her Master of Arts degree in International Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and Ph.D. in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin.
Henriette Neumann
Henriette Neumann is policy officer for Economic Policy, Market Regulation and Distribution Policy of the German Con-federation of Trade Unions (DGB). There she was temporarily also responsible for Public Services, Trade Policy and European Economic Policy. Prior to this, Ms. Neumann conducted research on the causes and consequences of current account im-balances in the EU at the IPE Berlin and the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Boeckler Foundation.
Christoph Paetz
Christoph Paetz is working as a senior researcher at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in the Hans-Boeckler Foundation and is currently doing his PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen on the effects of fiscal rules. His research interests are tax and fiscal policies, fiscal rules and macroeconomic performance.
Franz Prante
Franz Prante is a research associate at Chemnitz University of Technology and a PhD candidate at the Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and HWR Berlin. His research interests focus on macroeconomics, economic policy, income distribution, financial and economic crises, the German financial system and the effects of austerity policies on health care provision in Italy.
Jan Priewe
From 1993 until 2014, Dr. Jan Priewe was professor of economics at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin – University of Applied Sciences. After retirement in 2014 he continued to teach at HTW Berlin as a free-lance lecturer and is a member of the Research Cluster “Money, Trade, Finance and Development”. In 2014 he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) within the Hans-Böckler-Foundation in Düsseldorf.
Leonardo Quero Virla
Leonardo is an external doctoral candidate at the Chair of Economics, esp. Empirical Economics (Prof. Dr. Christian Proaño), University of Bamberg. Previously, he completed a master's degree in International Economics at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin and a bachelor's degree in Economics at Universidad del Zulia (Venezuela). Along with his research projects, he is currently employed at Springer Nature Group, after working at ESMT Berlin.
Bea Ruoff
Bea Maria Ruoff is Head of Operations, Accountability and Monitoring at ACT on Living Wages. Before joining ACT she was a lecturer in International Economics/Macroeconomics and Strategic Management at Berlin School of Economics and Law. She developed research projects with the members of the IPE Berlin and coordinated the research project “Combating Inequality” of Berlin School of Economics and Law and Kassel University. Her research focus is on wage setting mechanisms, wage inequality and global production networks.
Joëlle Saey-Volckrick
Joëlle Saey-Volckrick is a Lecturer of Ecological Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, an editor of the international webportal Degrowth.info and a community builder for NousRire, a food buying group in Quebec. She studied her Bachelor's in Political Science and Economics at the Free University of Brussels and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and her Master in International Economics at HWR.
Nina Schlosser
Nina Schlosser is a Ph.D. candidate of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. In her Ph.D. project, she analyses the actors, practises, structures, and resulting social conflicts within the Chilean lithium sector. Nina holds a Master’s degree in Political Economy of European Integration and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, during which time she also studied in Lyon/France and Buenos Aires/Argentina.
Ulaş Şener
Ulaş Şener, Dr. rer. pol., is currently a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Previously, he was as a research assistant at Potsdam University, where he received his PhD in Economics. His dissertation on central bank independence and monetary policy in Turkey was recognized with the Jörg Huffschmid Award 2017 for outstanding research in political economy.
Salome Topuria
Salome Topuria is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Kassel and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Her PhD research investigates the feasibility of implementing industrial policy in liberalized economies: a case of Georgia. Salome holds a master’s degree in Political Economy of European Integration from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations, which she obtained in Prague, Czech Republic.
Achim Truger
Dr. rer. pol. Achim Truger is professor for `Sozioökonomie´, specialising in government activity and public finances at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Member of the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung) and Senior Research Fellow at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute of the Hans Boeckler Foundation in Düsseldorf. Previously, he was professor of economics, in particular macroeconomics and economic policy, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law from 2012 to 2019.
Carlos Abreo Villamizar
Carlos Abreo Villamizar holds a PhD in Economic Integration from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He has worked mainly on the empirical assessment of the determinants of international trade and inward FDI in a developing Latin American country such as Colombia. He has also developed his academic career as a university professor in some countries, mainly in Colombia and Spain, teaching economics and finance. He has published relevant academic articles in leading international journals and frequently serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals in the field of economics.
Hanna Völkle
Hanna Völkle researches the feminist-ecological economics of time and is a PhD student at the University of Vechta. She works as a social scientist and research associate for the Harriet Taylor Mill-Institute for Economics and Gender Studies at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Before she worked for the non-governmental organisation EAF Berlin, which promotes equal opportunities in business, science, and politics. Since 2019 she has been a lecturer on Feminist Ecological Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL). She has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Political and Communication Sciences. She completed a traineeship in science communication at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW). In 2018 she completed the Master's program "Political Economy of European Integration" at the BSEL. She is a member of "efas - das Ökonominnennetzwerk".
Ryan Woodgate
Dr. Ryan Woodgate is Assistant Professor of Economics & Statistics at the Berlin campus of Forward College. He holds a PhD in Economic Sciences from the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, two master’s degrees (“MA International Economics” from the Berlin School of Economics & Law and “MA Economic Analysis and Policy” jointly awarded by the University of Paris and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), and earned his undergraduate degree with first-class honours in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.