Prof. Dr. Martin Werding

Martin Werding is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022. He is Professor of Social Policy and Public Finance at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) since 2008.

Previously, Martin Werding chaired the Department for Social Policy and Labour Markets at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and remained Ifo research professor until 2019. In 2007, he was visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. From 2013 to 2015 and since 2022, he was or is Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at RUB. Since 2013, he is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Martin Werding studied philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy S.J. and economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and the University of Passau. From 2000 to 2008 he taught at the LMU and at the Munich Graduate School of Economics. His research focuses on the effects of demographic change on public finances, on old-age provision, family policy, income support and other areas of social policy, as well as on population economics and labour market policy.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for Family Affairs of the BMFSFJ, where he was deputy chairman from 2013 to 2019. He was a member of the Working Group on Public Finance of the BMF, the Scientific Expert Panel for the Fourth Poverty and Wealth Report at the BMAS and the Expert Council on Demography of the BMI. He worked on research projects on behalf of several federal ministries and state governments, national governments of other countries and in cooperation with international organisations.