Axel Weber (economist)

Axel Weber (* 1954 in Cologne ) is a German economist, expert on social policy and university lecturer.

Axel Weber studied economics, social policy and public finance at the University of Cologne and the Pennsylvania State University . He did his doctorate on a topic in the field of public goods . Then he was an assistant at the seminar for social policy at the University of Cologne.

He began his professional career in 1983 as a consultant at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . Afterwards he was a consultant for social policy and head of the department in the planning staff of the AOK federal association. From 1991 to 1996 he was a national expert in the social economy department of the EU Commission . From 2002 to 2009 he worked as a specialist in social policy and social development at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila. He was the initiator of the ADB's “Social Protection Index”, a comparative study of social security in almost all Asian countries. Weber worked internationally as an appraiser and consultant for companies and organizations and took on teaching assignments at the University of Trier and the University of Trier.

In 2015 he was appointed honorary professor in the social insurance department of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences “because of his outstanding achievements in teaching and practice” .

Fonts (selection)

The rationality trap in collective goods economics: socio-economic, financial and historical building blocks for a theory of collective goods. Diss. University of Cologne, 1980
With Volker Leienbach: Social Security in Europe: Social Insurance in the Member States of the European Community. Society for Insurance Science and Design eV, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1989, ISBN 3-7890-1836-8 ; 4th edition under the title The systems of social security in the European Union. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6535-8
With Charles Normand: Social health insurance: a guidebook for planning. World Health Organization, Geneva 1994; 2nd edition. Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Bad Homburg vd Höhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-88864-491-7 ; on-line
With Michael Cichon et al .: Modeling in Health Care Finance. A Compendium of Quantitative Techniques for Health Care Financing. International Labor Office , Geneva 1999, ISBN 92-2-110862-7
With Bob Baulch and Joe Wood: Social protection index for committed poverty reduction. Volume 2, Asia. Asian Development Bank, Manila 2008, ISBN 978-971-561-667-6 ; on-line
A social security index for Asia. Information Service / Society for Insurance Science and Design, Cologne 2009; on-line
Social protection in the case of unemployment in the Philippines. International Labor Organization , Geneva 2010; on-line
Assessment of the Philippine Social Protection Floor Policies. Analysis 32, Bread for the World , Stuttgart 2012; on-line
With Florence Bonnet and Cathérine Saget: Social protection and minimum wages responses to the 2008 financial and economic crisis: Findings from the ILO / World Bank Inventory. International Labor Organization 2012, ISBN 9789221260417 ; on-line

editor

Kazi S. Ahmed et al .: Social protection index for committed poverty reduction. Asian Development Bank, Manila 2006, ISBN 971-561-599-6 ; on-line

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne

[1] Speech by the President of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ihne, on the occasion of the opening of the 2015/16 academic year , Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences , September 28, 2015

[2] There is no need for hunger and poverty , University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg , April 27, 2015