Armin Steinbach is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics at HEC Paris. He is also non-resident Fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. Armin was a government official for a decade with the German government, where he headed the financial policy division in the German Ministry of Finance and the economic policy division in the Ministry of Economic and Energy Affairs.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.