Christina Gathmann is Director of the Labor Market Department at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg. After undergraduate studies in Germany, Venezuela and Canada, Christina Gathmann obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Prior to Luxembourg, she held positions at Stanford University, the Hoover Institute, the University of Mannheim and Heidelberg University.

She is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), CESifo, the Center for Research and Analysis on Migration (CReAM) at University College London, the Institut Convergences Migrations at the Paris School of Economics, the Mannheim Center for Socio-Economic Research (MZES), the Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW). She won the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association in 2003 and is an elected member of the Academia Europea.

Christina Gathmann is Associate Editor for the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and Co-editor of Labour Economics. She was elected as a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin since 2013 and served as its Deputy Chair from 2015 to 2019. She also serves as an economic expert for the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) since 2024. In addition, she is currently on the advisory board of the Horizon Europe Project DS4Skills to create a European Data space for Skills and the Junior Research Group on the Impact of the Ecological Transformation on the Labor Market led by Christina Vonnahme from RWI in Essen. Prior to that, Christina served on many scientific advisory councils, including for the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) where she was the Chairwoman from 2021 to 2022; the MERCUR University Alliance of the Mercator Foundation, the ZEW Research Group on Migration, Integration and Attitudes, Bremen Research Initiative on Early Childhood (BRISE) and the Cultural Foundation of BASF (TOR4).

Her research interests are in labor economics, migration, public economics and political economy, policy evaluation and applied econometrics. Within these areas, she is particularly interested in the production and depreciation of human capital and its impact on turnover, wages, inequality and unemployment; and the economic and social consequences of political institutions and labor market policies.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2003 and became a Research Fellow in May 2008.