Current and past positions
Professor of Development Economics, University of Passau, since 2012.
Professor of Development Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2007-2012.
Guest-Professor, Paris School of Economics, 2009-2012.
Guest-Professor, University of Bordeaux, 2011, 2013, 2014.
Ass.-Professor of Development Economics, University of Göttingen, 2003-2007.
Consultant, World Bank, Washington D.C., USA, Macroeconomics and Poverty Assessment Skills Program, 2003.
Other affiliations
Invited Researcher, J-PAL.
Member of the Executive Board, European Development Research Network (EUDN).
Research Fellow, RWI – Leibniz Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. Essen.
Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn.
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.
Research Professor, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Sciences Po Paris, 2002.
(Board of examiners: Didier Blanchet, François Bourguignon, Denis Cogneau, Philippe de Vreyer, Marc Gurgand and Stephan Klasen.)Visiting scholar at the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), Paris, 1999.
Master's Degree (D.E.A.) in Population Economics, Sciences Po Paris, 1999.
Master's Degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, 1997.