Rachel Glennerster
Center for Global Development, Washington
ASG Faculty Network and Scientific Advisory Board
The Adenauer School of Government is being built as a new European institution for problem-solving research and teaching in public governance at the intersection of economics, law, technology, and government. The Faculty Network below should be read as a snapshot of an evolving process. As a central university institution, the ASG builds on the University of Cologne’s strengths, especially in its Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and its Faculty of Law. From this foundation, the ASG is developing complementary strengths across various relevant policy fields.
ASG research and teaching start from problems that matter for public decision-making. They use rigorous empirical, theoretical, legal, computational, and behavioral methods to understand political, economic, and social challenges, identify gaps in existing science and evidence, and design better institutions, regulations, markets, and policies. Teaching will build strong methodological competence, including data science and AI, as a foundation for policy design. This problem-solving orientation is meant to make interdisciplinary work concrete, methodologically disciplined, and relevant to practice.
The scholars listed below have agreed to support the School in its founding phase through varied forms of engagement, including research collaboration, teaching, academic advice, research boards, and institution building. Many scholars are listed in more than one area, reflecting the School’s ambition to organize research and teaching around problems rather than disciplinary and other boundaries.
The list will expand as collaborations deepen and the School takes shape. Over the coming months and years, the ASG will make its own faculty appointments. These appointments will form the core of the School’s permanent faculty and will work closely with the ASG Faculty Network. In this effort, the School will be advised by an international Scientific Advisory Board.
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board provides independent advice on the School's scientific direction, academic standards, and international positioning. The Board is in development; we are grateful that the following scholars have agreed to serve.
Ulrike Malmendier
University of California, Berkeley
Paul Milgrom
Stanford University
David Parkes
Harvard University
Alvin Roth
Stanford University
Cass Sunstein
Harvard Law School
Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics
Robert Wilson
Stanford University
Catherine Wolfram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
ASG Founding Faculty Network
The Founding Faculty Network brings together scholars from the University of Cologne and leading institutions worldwide who have agreed to support the School’s teaching and research in its founding phase. The areas below indicate evolving research priorities rather than administrative departments. They are designed to organize problem-focused collaboration across disciplines, methods, and policy fields.
Economic Design, Markets, and Behavior
Microeconomic foundations of policy and institutional design, including economic reasoning, market design, industrial organization, behavioral public policy, and the design of institutions, regulations, markets, and behavioral interventions.
Dirk Bergemann
Yale University (Information Economics and Mechanism Design)
Martin Bichler
Technical University of Munich (Computer Science)
Felix Bierbrauer
University of Cologne (Public Finance and Political Economy)
Yan Chen
University of Michigan (Market Design and Experimental Economics)
Piotr Dworczak
Northwestern University (Economic Design and Redistribution)
Veronika Grimm
University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (Public Policy and Energy Economics)
Simon Jäger
Princeton University (Labor Economics)
Scott Kominers
Harvard University (Economic Design and Digital Markets)
Ulrike Malmendier
University of California, Berkeley (Public Policy, Behavioral Economics, and Finance)
Axel Ockenfels
University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics, Bonn (Economic and Policy Design, and Behavioral Economics)
Tobias Salz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Industrial Organization and Digital Markets)
Elke Weber
Princeton University (Behavioral Science for Public Policy)
AI, Data, and Digital Governance
The economics, law, and computer science of AI, data, and digital systems, including AI governance, platform regulation, privacy, computational law, and data science and machine learning for policy analysis.
Stefan Bechtold
ETH Zurich (Law and Economics, Intellectual Property)
Dirk Bergemann
Yale University (Information Economics and Mechanism Design)
Martin Bichler
Technical University of Munich (Computer Science)
Meeyoung ("Mia") Cha
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum (AI, Data Science, and Computational Social Science)
Yan Chen
University of Michigan (Market Design and Experimental Economics)
Piotr Dworczak
Northwestern University (Economic Design and Redistribution)
Tallia B. Gillis
Columbia Law School (Law, Economics, and AI Governance)
Krishna P. Gummadi
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Saarbrücken (AI, Computing and Society)
Scott Kominers
Harvard University (Economic Design and Digital Markets)
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler
New York University School of Law (Law, Economics, and Human Behavior)
Julian Nyarko
Stanford Law School (Computational Law and Empirical Legal Studies)
Iyad Rahwan
Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Human and Machine Behavior)
Carlo Schwarz
Bocconi University (Political Economy and Machine Learning Methods)
Indra Spiecker
University of Cologne (Public Law and Digital Regulation)
Tom Zimmermann
University of Cologne (Data Science, Finance, and Empirical Macroeconomics)
Democracy, Security, and Global Governance
Legal, economic, political, and technological perspectives on democracy, security, migration, inequality, and poverty. The area studies how institutions and international law can protect rights, sustain social cohesion, and respond to domestic and global risks.
Lucie Cluver
University of Oxford (Child Welfare and Development Policy)
Fabian Klose
University of Cologne (History)
Thomas König
University of Mannheim (Political Science)
Claus Kreß
University of Cologne (Public International Law)
Clemens Kroneberg
University of Cologne (Sociology, Criminology and Security)
Angelika Nußberger
University of Cologne (Constitutional Law and International Human Rights)
Julian Nyarko
Stanford Law School (Computational Law and Empirical Legal Studies)
Markus Ogorek
University of Cologne (Public Law and Governance)
Pia Pinger
University of Cologne (Labor and Education Economics)
Moritz Schularick
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Globalization and Financial Markets)
Carlo Schwarz
Bocconi University (Political Economy and Machine Learning Methods)
Sonja Settele
University of Cologne (Inequality and Behavioral Economics)
Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School (Economic Analysis of Law and Comparative Law)
Andrew Thompson
University of Oxford (Imperial and Global History)
Christoph Trebesch
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Geoeconomics and Geopolitics)
Economic Policy and Global Challenges
Macroeconomic, public-finance, labor-market, financial, regulatory, and geopolitical perspectives on major policy challenges, including climate and energy policy, financial stability, inequality, labor-market change, trade, and technological disruption. The area studies how governments can design robust policies under economic, social, technological, and geopolitical constraints.
Felix Bierbrauer
University of Cologne (Public Finance and Political Economy)
Markus Brunnermeier
Princeton University (Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Policy)
Ottmar Edenhofer
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Climate Economics)
Gabriel Felbermayr
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna (International Trade and Economic Policy)
Veronika Grimm
University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (Public Policy and Energy Economics)
Simon Jäger
Princeton University (Labor Economics)
Ulrike Malmendier
University of California, Berkeley (Public Policy, Behavioral Economics, and Finance)
Franziska Ohnsorge
World Bank (Global Macroeconomics and Emerging Markets)
Amelie Schiprowski
University of Bonn (Empirical Labor and Public Economics)
Martin Schmalz
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School (Finance, Corporate Governance, and Regulation)
Sebastian Siegloch
University of Cologne (Public and Labor Economics)
Christoph Trebesch
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Geoeconomics and Geopolitics)
Catherine Wolfram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Climate Economics)
ASG Associated Scholars Network
Associated Scholars are distinguished colleagues at the University of Cologne and elsewhere who collaborate with the School in selected areas of research, teaching, policy transfer, and academic advice, or who connect the School to important complementary fields. The network is intentionally open and will be updated as collaborations develop.
Rüdiger Bachmann
University of Michigan (Public Policy and Macroeconomics)
Susanne Crewell
University of Cologne (Climate Science and Physics)
Christoph Engel
Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics, Bonn (Behavioral Law and Economics)
Florian Englmaier
LMU Munich (Organizational and Personnel Economics)
Anne Gast
University of Cologne and Center for Social and Economic Behavior (Psychology)
Michael Hallek
University of Cologne (Medicine)
Matthias Heinz
University of Cologne (Behavioral Management and Personnel Economics)
Johanna Hey
University of Cologne (Tax Law)
Bernd Irlenbusch
University of Cologne and Center for Social and Economic Behavior (Behavioral Economics and Business Ethics)
Elena Katok
University of Texas at Dallas (Behavioral Operations Management and Negotiations)
Dorothea Kübler
WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Experimental Economics and Matching Markets)
Michaela Pelican
University of Cologne (Anthropology, Migration, and African Studies)
Lucia Reisch
University of Cambridge (Behavioral Economics and Policy)
Bettina Rockenbach
University of Cologne and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Experimental and Behavioral Economics)
Christoph Rosenkranz
University of Cologne (Digital Transformation and Information Systems)
Christoph M. Schmidt
Ruhr University Bochum and Leibniz Association (Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics)
Matthias Sutter
Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics, Bonn (Behavioral and Experimental Economics)
Achim Wambach
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim (Competition Policy and Market Design)
Guntram Wolff
Bruegel, Brussels (European Economic Policy and Security)
Christiane Woopen
University of Bonn and Center for Life Ethics (Ethics and Public Policy)
The categories above form the School’s initial network architecture. The next phase will add appointed ASG faculty and Senior Fellows - distinguished and experienced leaders from politics, public administration, the judiciary, civil society, and the private sector. This page will be updated regularly as the School develops.