Prof. Dr. Philipp Harms

Philipp Harms is professor of economics at the University of Mainz (Germany) and joined the Study Center Gerzensee in September 2002. Before receiving his doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen in 1999, he attended the Program for Doctoral Students at Gerzensee and spent a year as a visiting graduate student at the University of Maryland. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the University of Konstanz (Germany) where he worked as an assistant professor from 1999 through 2004. He also taught classes in macroeconomics and monetary economics at the Universities of St. Gallen and Lausanne, and from 2004 through 2010 he was professor of macroeconomics at RWTH Aachen University (Germany). His main research areas are international economics, macroeconomics and political economy.