Armin STEINBACH

Armin Steinbach is currently on leave to serve as director-general in the German Ministry of Finance in charge of economic and fiscal policy strategy.

Armin holds the Jean Monnet Chair and the HEC Foundation Chair of Law and Economics at HEC Paris. He is also visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and non-resident Fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. Previously, Armin held academic posts as Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Oxford University's Nuffield College, Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Instite for Collective Goods in Bonn, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, visiting professor at University of St. Gallen, and Harvard University's Center for European Studies.

During previous stages as government official, Armin headed the financial policy division in the German Ministry of Finance and the economic policy division in the Ministry of Economic and Energy Affairs. He also worked at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva and as lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. Armin sits on the WTO list of panelists serving the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.

With his mixed background in academia and public service, Armin's research aims at interdisciplinary inquiry and bridging academic research and policy-making. Besides his academic publications, Armin has been a contributor and commentator to BBC, CNBC, Le Monde, Les Echos, Financial Times, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Handelsblatt.

Armin obtained his Habilitation from University of Bonn, for which he was awarded the Science Prize of the German Society of Legislation. He also holds a Doctor of Laws from University of Munich, Doctor of Economics from University of Erfurt, Master of Laws from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Master in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin.