Stefan Collignon

Stefan Collignon 2010

Stefan C. Collignon (born December 11, 1951 in Munich ) is a German economist .

academic career

After graduating from high school at the humanistic Ludwigsgymnasium , Collignon studied economics at the Free University of Berlin and there - after studying abroad at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris from 1974 to 1975 - obtained the degree of economics degree in 1977 . In 1989 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and his habilitation in 1999. He was previously at the University of Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , the Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House, QEH), the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics as a research fellow working.

Professional activities

Collignon worked from 1989 to 1999 as research director of the Association for the European Monetary Union in Paris. At the beginning of the European Monetary Union and after the red-green election victory on October 27, 1998, Collignon joined the euro department of the Federal Ministry of Finance as a sub-department head , but gave up this post again at the end of 2000. Collignon was an advocate of a demand-oriented financial and tax policy and also wanted to establish a fully integrated European macro-policy.

Since January 2001 Collignon has taught as a “Centennial Professor” for European political economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 to 2007 he held a visiting professorship on the subject of "Government" at Harvard University . Since October 2007 he has been professor of economic policy at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and at the University of Hamburg in the Faculty of Social Economics as a visiting professor in the Master of Arts in European Studies. He is chairman of the scientific council of the Centro Europa Ricerche (CER) in Rome .

Collignon has published extensively on the subject of the "European Republic". He is committed to a democratically elected government for the European Union.

Publications

• with Christian Paul: Pour la République européenne . Odile Jacob, Paris 2008.
• Federal Republic of Europe . With a foreword by Kurt Beck . Forward, Berlin 2007.
• Reforming Europe - daring democracy . Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn 2006.
• Vive la République européenne . Editions de La Martinière, Paris 2004.
• with Daniela Schwarzer: Private Sector Involvment in the Euro. The Power of Ideas . Routledge, London 2003.
• Monetary Stability in Europe . Routledge, London, 2003.
• The European monetary system in transition . Gabler, Wiesbaden 1994.
• Regional integration and development in East Africa . Institute for Africa Customers, Hamburg 1990.

Web links

Commons : Stefan Collignon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Stefan Collignon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Stefan C. Collignon (English)