Rainer Münz
Rainer Münz is Head of Research & Development at Erste Group Bank AG and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He is an expert on population change, international migration and demographic aging, their economic impact and their implications for social security. He studied at Vienna University, where he earned his PhD in 1978. Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Between 1992 and 2003 he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich (1992). He also was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University, Vienna (2001-2002). Since 2002 he is External Fellow of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego.
Rainer Münz has worked as consultant for the European Commission, the OECD and the World Bank. He served as an advisor to the Greek (2003), Dutch (2004) and Slovene (2008) EU presidencies. In 2000-01 he was member of the German commission on immigration reform (Süssmuth commission). Rainer Münz is member of several boards and advisory boards; among them: International Organization for Migration (IOM, Geneva), World Demographic Association (WDA, St. Gallen), Center for Migration, Integration and Citizenship at Oxford University (COMPAS, Oxford, UK), International Metropolis Project (Ottawa – Amsterdam), Association of German Pension Insurers (VDR, Frankfurt-Berlin, Germany), Daimler-Benz Foundation (Ladenburg, Germany), SOT Accountants (Vienna-Graz-Munich), VBV Pension Insurance (Vienna), STUWO AG (Vienna). His recent books include:
- Wie schnell wächst die Zahl der Menschen? Weltbevölkerung und weltweite Migration (World Population and International Migration). Frankfurt 2007 (S. Fischer; with Albert. F. Reiterer).
- Costs and Benefits of Immigration to Europe. Hamburg 2006 (HWWI), Paris 2006 (OECD; with Thomas Straubhaar, Florin Vadean, Nadia Vadean).
- Labour Migrants Unbound? EU Enlargement, Transitional Measures and Labour Market Effects. Stockholm 2005 (Institute for Futures Studies; with Kristof Tamas).
- Challenges and Opportunities of International Migration for the EU, Its Member States, Neighboring Countries and Regions. Washington DC 2004 (World Bank), Stockholm 2004 (Institute for Futures Studies; with Robert Holzmann).