Economist and political advisor
Ulrike Malmendier has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022. She is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business.
Ulrike Malmendier received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University, and her PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn.
She is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, a CESifo affiliate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) and member of the Advisory Board of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Sie has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Econometric Society.
ATTENTION: The event with Professor Ulrike Malmendier, originally planned for 6 November 2025, has been postponed (expected to take place in the spring semester of 2026; update to follow). Thank you for your understanding.
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