Holger Hinte joined IZA in 1998. After serving as Head of Public Relations for more than a decade, he is currently acting as Head of Publications and is also involved in IZA's research program.

He received his Master's degree in Modern History, Political Science and Business Administration from Bonn University in 1991. Since 1989 he has worked for various members of the Deutsche Bundestag. From 1992 to 1998 he was personal assistant and public relations consultant of the Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners' Issues.

Holger Hinte is co-publisher of several books dealing with current changes in German society:

• - Zeitenwende auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Wie der demografische Wandel die Erwerbsgesellschaft verändert, Bonn 2013
  (ed. with K. F. Zimmermann)
  
• - Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Oxford 2010
  (authored by Richard A. Easterlin, ed. with K. F. Zimmermann)
  
• - Immigration Policy and the Labor Market. The German Experience and Lessons for Europe, Berlin 2007
  (with K. F. Zimmermann, H. Bonin and R. Fahr)
  
• - Zuwanderung und Arbeitsmarkt. Deutschland und Dänemark im Vergleich, Berlin 2005
  (with K. F. Zimmermann)
  
• - Arbeitskräftebedarf bei hoher Arbeitslosigkeit. Ein ökonomisches Zuwanderungskonzept für Deutschland, Berlin 2002
  (with K. F. Zimmermann, T. Bauer, H. Bonin and R. Fahr)
  
• - Brücken zwischen Freiheit und Gemeinsinn. Positionen - Konzepte - Modelle, Bonn 1999
  (ed. with G. Chatzimarkakis)
  
• - Freiheit und Gemeinsinn. Vertragen sich Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus?, Bonn 1997
  (ed. with G. Chatzimarkakis)
  
• - Einwanderung - und dann? Perspektiven einer neuen Ausländerpolitik, München 1993
  (with C. Schmalz-Jacobsen and G. Tsapanos)