Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Macroeconomics and Development 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. She has published in leading economic journals, among others the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2010.