!!Klaus F. Zimmermann - Biography
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Klaus F. Zimmermann is a retired Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and acts as Honorary Professor at University of Edinburgh, the Free University of Berlin, Renmin University of China in Beijing, Maastricht University, Jinan University and Lixin University. He is a Senator of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and Chair of Section 25 “Economics and Empirical Social Sciences”. He is further a member of the Regional Science Academy and of Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and has been the Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences.  He is elected Fellow of the CORE Academy (Hongkong), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA). He further acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics and of the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.   
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Early on he founded the European Society of Population Economics, where he served as Secretary (1986-1992) and President (1994). He also established the Journal of Population Economics in 1988, whose editor-in-chief he has been since then, turning it into the leading journal in the field. He has been on the advisory boards of numerous other journals and was Managing Editor of Economic Policy for many years. As Program Director for “Human Resources” and “Labour Economics” of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, he belonged to the inner circle of this most influential European economic research network (1991-2001). In 2017, he created the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a global communication platform of scientists, and serves as the President. GLO is now the largest network of its type in the world fostering global collaborations.
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In 1998, he had founded the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn in cooperation with the Deutsche Post Foundation and Bonn University. Under his directorship, the institute expanded into the largest research network in economics, with a globally leading position in the field of labor economics. Simultaneously, he was President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) from 2000 to 2011. In the judgment of external scientific evaluations, he completely restructured the institute, realigned it scientifically and brought it to excellence. 2014 - 2016, he has also been Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IZA World of Labor, an online platform that provides decision-makers with evidence-based information on labor market issues in a clear and accessible style. 
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In 1998, he was the first economist to be awarded with the Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award of the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2013, the Luxembourg-based EIB Institute of the European Investment Bank awarded him with the first EIB Prize for excellence in social and economic research and its implementation and diffusion. He was honored for his lifetime scientific contribution, including academic excellence and publication record as well as impact on public policy or society at large, with applications to the European Union. In 2017, he received the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellowship. He was granted the distinguished EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society for his lifetime scientific achievements and has received the IEA Fellow Award 2022 of the International Economic Association and the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 & 2026. 
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Research stays abroad included visiting professorial positions at the University of Malaya, Macquarie University, University of Melbourne, Princeton University, Harvard University, Munich University, Dartmouth College, Kyoto University, University of Pennsylvania and CORE/Louvain-la-Neuve, among others. 
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His current main research interests are in migration, labor economics, population and development economics.
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Zimmermann has published 53 books, 192 papers in refereed research journals, 158 chapters in collected volumes, 11 contributions to handbooks and encyclopaedias, 113 contributions to policy journals and reports and over 542 media pieces. He is committed to the diffusion of research to policy and society, writes regularly in leading international media and advises governments, the European Commission and the World Bank on labor market and migration issues. 
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[Full curriculum vitae|https://www.klausfzimmermann.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/KFZ_CV_eng_2026_June.pdf] (June 2026)