Andreas Freytag

Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, where he chairs the Schumpeter-Centre,  Director of Tutwa Europe, Visiting Professor in the Institute of International Trade at the University of Adelaide the and Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also member of the CESifo Research Network, a STIAS Fellow, a Senior Fellow at Kings College’s DAFM, Senior Research Fellow at ECIPE, Brussels, and a Senior Research Associate at SAIIA, Johannesburg; he is associated to the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto. Freytag is on the Academic Board of the German-African Business Association (Afrika-Verein der
deutschen Wirtschaft).
Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals on economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination. He contributes to blogs and has a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine.