Lüder Gerken (born 30 July 1958 in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

) is a German economist.Curriculum vitae of Lüder Gerken
On finishing secondary school, Gerken trained first as a banker. Then, from 1981 to 1991, he went on to study Economics, completing his degree in 1985 and his PhD in 1988, followed by law, from which he graduated in 1991. From 1991 to 2001 Gerken headed the Freiburg-based

Walter Eucken Institut The Walter Eucken Institut is a German ordo-liberal economic think tank based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Institute was founded in 1954, four years after the death of economist Walter Eucken, by a number of his fri ...

. He completed his habilitation in 1998 at the University of Bayreuth, where he received a teaching post for Economics. From 2001 to 2004, Gerken was chairman of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft in Berlin. From 1999 to 2021, he was chairman of the executive board of

Stiftung Ordnungspolitik Stiftung Ordnungspolitik () is a nonprofit organization dealing with the ordoliberal tradition of the Freiburg school of economics. It strives to maintain and further develop ordo-economics based on the ideas of Walter Eucken and Friedrich August ...

and the

Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Stiftung The Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Stiftung was founded in May 1999 to mark the 100th birthday of the Nobel Prize winner Friedrich August von Hayek. The foundation has its seat in Freiburg im Breisgau (South Germany) and is run by Dr. habil Lüder Gerke ...

; from 2006 to 2021 he has been director of the Centrum für Europäische Politik, a think tank that analyzes EU-policies. Gerken has been a member of the board of trustees for the

Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft The ''Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft'' (INSM) – New Social Free Market Initiative – is a neoliberal German think tank and advocacy organization with headquarters in Berlin that was founded in 2000 by the employers' organization Gesamt ...

. In his work, his main focus is on national and international

ordoliberal Ordoliberalism is the German variant of economic liberalism that emphasizes the need for government to ensure that the free market produces results close to its theoretical potential but does not advocate for a welfare state. Ordoliberal ideals ...

policy, European integration and location competition.

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