Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer
Professor of Comparative Economics, LMU Munich
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Monika Schnitzer holds a chair in Comparative Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich since 1996. She has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. Her research focuses on the interaction between competition and innovation and, in particular, on the question of what contribution antitrust measures and regulation could make to increasing innovation.
Since April 2020, she has been a member and, since October 2022, Chair of the German Council of Economic Experts. She has been active in policy advice for more than 20 years, including as Deputy Chair of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation and as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of DG Competition.
Monika Schnitzer is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the Academia Europaea and of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of the European Economic Association and of the CESifo and CEPR research networks. From 2015–2016, she was President of the German Economic Association. She was awarded the Federal Order of Merit on Ribbon and the Bavarian Order of Merit. In 2022, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel.
