Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Macroeconomics at Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University, was assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, and holds an honorary doctorate from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is Program Director of the “Macroeconomics and Growth” program area at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London/Paris and an elected member of the Econometric Society. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2018, the highest scientific award in Germany, and the Hermann-Heinrich-Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik in 2016. She was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2010 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2019. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and on the scientific advisory boards of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy and the Deutsche Bundesbank. She is also a member of numerous international research networks.