Resident Scholars
Jakob von Weizsäcker
Expertise :Migration, ageing and economic development.
Phone : +32 2 227 4210
Email : jvw(a)bruegel.org
Jakob von Weizsäcker, a German citizen, joined Bruegel from the
World Bank in Washington (2002-2005) where he was Country Economist for
Tajikistan.
Previously, he worked for the Federal Economics Ministry in
Berlin (2001-2002) where he headed the office of a junior minister and
Vesta, a venture capital firm (2000-2001). Before that, he held
research positions at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich and
CIRED in Paris.
Jakob's research is focused on migration, ageing, economic development and presently, the economic crisis.
He is fluent in German, English and French.
Jakob von Weizsäcker's Publications
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- OPINION PIECES AND COLUMNS ▼
- Berliner Zeitung: "Die Selbstfesselung des Sozialstaats"
- Berliner Zeitung: "Eine Schocktherapie für unser Gewissen"
- Die Zeit: "Düsen für die Entwicklungshilfe?"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Cheap energy for the poor?"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Ein magisches Parkhaus"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "EU Olympic team – Is there strength in numbers?"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Galloping grain prices: is liberalisation the answer?"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Gastarbeiter and the Wirtschaftswunder"
- Financial Times Deutschland: "Wertvolles Kapital"
- Financial Times: "Schuldenabbau durch Klimaschutz"
- Financial Times/ La Vanguardia/ Les Echos/ Gazeta Wyborcza : "Europe needs a concerted fiscal stimulus"
- Frankfurther Allgemein: "Der rentengewinn der generation enkellos"
- Gazeta Wyborcza: "Welcome to Poland"
- Handelsblatt: The EU as ’Bad Cop" of Immigration Policy?
- International Herald Tribune: "Greening the Debt"
- Syndicate project: "Winning over globalisation‘s losers"
- Telos: "High-skilled Migrants: Welcome to Europe!"
- Wall Street Journal: "Europe and the huddled Masses"