I am Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen and Head of the Kiel Institute China Initiative. My research analyzes trade, investment and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. I also investigate the political economy of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and non-militarized conflicts.

Before having joined the University of Göttingen, I was professor at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2018-2019), senior researcher at Heidelberg University (2013-2018), and postdoc at Princeton University (2012-2013). I defended my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Göttingen in August 2012 under the supervision of Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, and Stefanie Walter. I hold a Master’s degree from Goethe University Frankfurt as well as from Dauphine University Paris. I have also worked as a consultant for the Bertelsmann Foundation, the European Commission, and the OECD.

Research Fields:

• Development Economics (with a focus on Development Finance, Humanitarian Crises, and Migration)
• International (Political) Economics (with a focus on Trade, Investment, and International Organizations)
• Regional focus: China and Emerging Asia

Memberships:

• AidData program at the College of William and Mary (since 2012)
• Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association (since 2017)
• European Development Network (EUDN) (associated since 2017)
• Research Committee on Economic Systems and Institutional Economics of the German Economic Association (since 2018)
• DFG-funded Research Training Group (RTG) 1723 "Globalization and Development" (since 2019)
• Research Center 'Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses' (since 2019)
• Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (since 2019)
• Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) (since 2019)

Link to my website at University of Göttingen
Link to my website at IfW Kiel

Short bio in German:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs ist Professor für Entwicklungsökonomik und Direktor des Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) an der Universität Göttingen and Leiter der Kiel Institute China Initiative. Seine Forschung untersucht Handels-, Investitions- und Entwicklungspolitik mit quantitativen Methoden und einen besonderen Fokus auf China und andere aufstrebende Schwellenländer. Prof. Fuchs analysiert auch die politische Ökonomie von Naturkatastrophen, humanitären Krisen und nicht-militarisierten Konflikten.

Vor seinem Ruf an die Universität Göttingen war er Professor an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg und am Kieler Institut für Weltwirtschaft (2018-2019), Akademischer Mitarbeiter an der Universität Heidelberg (2013-2018) und Postdoc an der Princeton University (2012-2018). Er hat seinen Doktortitel an der Universität Göttingen im August 2012 bei Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher, Prof. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D. und Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walter verteidigt. Prof. Fuchs hat Masterabschlüsse der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und der Université Paris-Dauphine erworben. Außerdem hat er als Berater für die Bertelsmann-Stiftung, die Europäische Kommission und die OECD gearbeitet.

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Link to the website of my Chair at the University of Göttingen