Michael Landesmann

Dr. Michael Landesmann is a Senior Research Associate at The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.
He is a Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz.
He was a Scientific Director of wiiw from 1996 to 2016.
His research focuses on East-West economic integration, structural change, economic growth, general topics in international economic relations, globalization and labor markets, and migration.
He was a member of the Group of Economic Policy Advisors under the chairmanship of former EU Commission President Romano Prodi and participated in and coordinated a wide range of EU projects on different aspects of European integration.
He has a D.
Phil.
from Oxford University, was a Lecturer, Fellow and Senior Research Officer at Cambridge University and held Visiting Professorships at Harvard University (where he was J.
Schumpeter and Pierre Keller Visiting Professor) and a wide range of other universities (Brandeis, Basel, Osaka, Padova, Jerusalem, Central European University, CERGE-EI, Mumbai, etc.).