Marcel Thum

Marcel Thum (born June 12, 1965 in Munich ) is a German economist , professor of economics at the Technical University of Dresden and director of the Ifo Institute in Dresden .

Life

Marcel Thum was born in Munich in 1965. From 1985 to 1990 he studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated with a degree in economics. He then worked there at the Chair of Economics and Public Finance as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1995 . After a short stay as John Foster Dulles Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University , he returned to Munich and was a research assistant there until his habilitation in 2001 . Since 2001 he has been professor of economics at the TU Dresden and since 2004 head of the branch of the Ifo Institute in Dresden. He is chairman of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Finance .

research

Thum's main research interests are political economy , finance, the labor market and demography . According to IDEAS, he is among the top 5% of authors in the RePec database.

Personal

Thum is married and has three children.

Memberships

• CESifo Research Fellow (since 1999)
• Member of the Finance Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik (since 2002)
• Chairman of the expert group on demographic change in Saxony (2005-2006)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance (since 2007; 2015-2018 Deputy Chairman; since 2019 Chairman)
• Member of the expert group on demography of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (2010–2012)
• Member of the Advisory Board of Population Europe (since 2012)
• Member of the "Urban Development" working group of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (since 2013)
• Member of the advisory board of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Phillipsp University in Marburg

Honors

• 2005: Science Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Economic Research (Friends of the Ifo Institute) e. V.
• 2010: 2010 Standard Life Prize of the European Corporate Governance Institute

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcel Thum in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Website at TU Dresden
• Website at the Ifo Institute
• Marcel Thum in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• Profile at IDEAS / RePec (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thum, Marcel. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on July 8, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted online edition). 
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Marcel Thum. (No longer available online.) Ifo Institute, archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Research topics and priorities. (No longer available online.) TU Dresden, archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Marcel P. Thum. (No longer available online.) IDEAS, archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Marcel Thum: Curriculum Vitae. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 (English).