Tilman Brück

Biography

Tilman Brück is Head of the Department of International Economics at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He studied economics at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford and obtained his doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests include the economics of household behaviour and well-being in conflict and post-conflict economies and the economics of terrorism and insecurity. He has worked on many developing and middle income countries including Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda and Ukraine.

Professor Brück is a co-founder and co-director of the „Households in Conflict Network”, the coordinator of the “Network for the Economics of Terrorism (NEAT)” and the coordinator or deputy coordinator of several European research projects in the 6th and 7th framework programmes. He has also worked as a consultant for BMZ, DFID, the European Commission, GTZ, ILO, KfW, OECD, UNDP, USAID, and the World Bank and has extensive experience in commenting on current economic policy issues in the media. Professor Brück is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) in Lisbon, Portugal, a research affiliate of the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS), a research associate at the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and an elected fellow of the German Young Academy of Sciences.

Institutional Affiliations and Web Links

Head, Department of International Economics, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Professor, Humboldt-University of Berlin (HU Berlin)

Co-Director, Household in Conflict Network (HiCN)

Coordinator, Network for the Economics of Terrorism (NEAT)

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, Portugal

Research Affiliate, Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS), Department of Economics, University of Sussex

Research Associate, Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn

Fellow, German Young Academy of Sciences (Junge Akademie)

Research Papers

Most research papers can be downloaded at REPEC.

Teaching

Professor Brück teaches a course in development economics at the Masters level each summer semester and supervises research projects and doctoral students in development economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin.

Curriculum Vitae

A CV can be downloaded here or here.

Contact Details

Mailing Address: DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Tel: +49-30-89789-591 (direct), -441 (secretary)

Fax: +49-30-89789-108

Email: tbrueck ¤ diw . de

Web: http://www.tilmanbrueck.de/ and http://www.diw.de/cv/en/tbrueck

Last updated May 2010.