Research Director
Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch
Research Director
Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch
> Personal website with full list of publications.
Christoph Trebesch is Director of the Research Center on International Finance at the Kiel Institute and Professor of Macroeconomics at Kiel University. He is the founding Director of the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics and serves as Principal Investigator in the ERC project Great.Power.Finance and in the Excellence Cluster SCRIPTS. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the German Ministry of Finance.
His research lies at the intersection of international finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy. He is an expert on sovereign debt, financial crises, China’s role in global finance, and the economics of populism. His current research focuses on geoeconomics. In 2021, he launched the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics. In addition, he developed the widely cited Ukraine Support Tracker, measuring military and financial aid to Ukraine.
In 2024, Trebesch received the Gossen Prize by the German Economic Association, which honors outstanding German economists under the age of 45. In 2023, he was awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project “International Finance and the Great Powers, 1800–2020”.
Trebesch received his doctorate from Free University Berlin in 2011, for which he was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize. He then joined the University of Munich as Assistant Professor in 2011, before moving to Kiel in 2017 as Full Professor and Director at the Kiel Institute. He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and has served as consultant and advisor to the IMF, World Bank, United Nations, and the U.S. Treasury. His work is regularly featured in leading international media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, or the Financial Times.
Topics
International FinanceFiscal Policy & National BudgetsEconomic & Financial CrisesMain research interests
- Sovereign Debt and Default
- Political Economy
- International Capital Flows
- International Financial Institutions
- Geopolitics and Economics
- Financial Stability and Financial Crises
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> Personal website with full list of publications.
Christoph Trebesch is Director of the Research Center on International Finance at the Kiel Institute and Professor of Macroeconomics at Kiel University. He is the founding Director of the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics and serves as Principal Investigator in the ERC project Great.Power.Finance and in the Excellence Cluster SCRIPTS. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the German Ministry of Finance.
His research lies at the intersection of international finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy. He is an expert on sovereign debt, financial crises, China’s role in global finance, and the economics of populism. His current research focuses on geoeconomics. In 2021, he launched the Kiel Initiative on Geoeconomics. In addition, he developed the widely cited Ukraine Support Tracker, measuring military and financial aid to Ukraine.
In 2024, Trebesch received the Gossen Prize by the German Economic Association, which honors outstanding German economists under the age of 45. In 2023, he was awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project “International Finance and the Great Powers, 1800–2020”.
Trebesch received his doctorate from Free University Berlin in 2011, for which he was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize. He then joined the University of Munich as Assistant Professor in 2011, before moving to Kiel in 2017 as Full Professor and Director at the Kiel Institute. He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and has served as consultant and advisor to the IMF, World Bank, United Nations, and the U.S. Treasury. His work is regularly featured in leading international media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, or the Financial Times.
