Prof. Dr. Stephan L. Thomsen

Since 07/16
Managing Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies (CWS) of the Institute of Economic Policy, Hannover

Since 10/11
Professor of Economics, esp. Applied Economic Policy (W3), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

10/11 to 06/16
Director of the Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW)
(Scientific director, managing director and chairperson of the board)

08/07 to 09/11
Assistant Professor for Labour Market Economics at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

04/06 to 07/07
Researcher (Post-Doc) at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW Mannheim)

04/01 to 03/06Researcher, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 10/99 to 03/01Research assistant and tutor in statistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

07/99 to 09/99
Student assistant at the BfG ImmoInvest (real estate funds) in Frankfurt am Main

07/97 to 04/98
Military service in the press centre of the Air Force Cologne as editor of the magazine “Luftwaffe”

04/01 to 03/06
PhD studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Title of the thesis: Evaluating the Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany (summa cum laude)
(Graduation: Dr. rer. pol. )

04/03 to 09/04
Diploma in business administration at the Fernuniversität in Hagen

04/98 to 03/01
Diploma in economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Since 12/18
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board “Effects of Intensified Career Guidance at High Schools", Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Nuremberg.

Since 04/18
Executive Board Member of the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Since 04/17
Research Fellow of the Global Labor Organization

03/17 - 3/19
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board EBEN-MEA, Kyritz and Fehrbellin

Since 01/17
Member of the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Since 04/16
Spokesperson of the Research Centre for the Lower Saxony Company Panel at Leibniz University of Hannover

Since 08/14
Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Labour (IZA), Bonn

Since 11/07
Research Associate (Research Professor) at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim.

10/16 to 10/18
Collaboration in the working group “Economic Education" of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy).

01/15 to 04/17
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the 5th Framework Programme Report on Poverty and Wealth of the Federal Government, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Berlin.

12/09 to 12/14
Member of the Steering Group of the Expert Platform on Demographic Change in Saxony-Anhalt, WZW Wissenschaftszentrum Sachsen-Anhalt, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Member of the Committee on Population Economics, the Committee on Economics of Education and the Committee on the History of Economics in the Verein für Socialpolitik