About
Armin Steinbach is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics at HEC Paris.
Currently on leave from his academic post, he serves as chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance in Berlin. He is also non-resident Fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. Previous academic posts include Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Oxford University's Nuffield College, Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn) and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
As visiting professor he researched at Harvard University's Center for European Studies and at University of St. Gallen. Armin is a frequent contributor and commentator to BBC, CNBC, Le Monde, Les Echos, Financial Times, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Al Jazeera. With his mixed background in academia and public service, Armin's research aims at interdisciplinary inquiry and bridging academic research and policy-making.
Expertise
- Law and Economics
- EU Law
- Economic and Financial Policies
- International Trade