Nadja Dwenger and Franziska Schuenemann on a new committee of young female economists at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK) [25.04.24]
On 24 April 2024, female professors of economics met with employees of the BMWK to discuss current economic policy issues. The researchers are members of a young female economists' network that regularly exchanges expertise with the BMWK. At the official ceremony in the early evening, the previously informal committee was given an official status with the enactment of a statute.
Picture: F. Schuenemann/University of Hohenheim
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The Economists' Network is currently a group of 17 female economics professors from top-level research in the field of economics. Two professors from the University of Hohenheim with a strong research background have been invited to join the new committee: Nadja Dwenger (Chair of Public Economics) and Franziska Schuenemann (Chair of Bioeconomics). The network represents more diversity in the economic advisory landscape and is primarily intended to create a framework for short-term, unbureaucratic and occasional policy advice that complements established advisory boards. In the interests of a stronger evidence base, the cooperation also includes access to data and scientific support for the implementation of political measures.
The young members and the focus on female professors will help to create a more diverse and broader dialogue between politics and science. It therefore also offers a forum for gathering new impulses for economic policy, transferring issues relevant to economic policy to academia and discussing approaches to solutions.
Federal Minister Habeck on the founding of the network: "Good economic policy is dependent on scientific expertise. I am therefore very pleased that the female professors in the "Economists' Network" are complementing existing and proven advisory boards. With the network, the BMWK is expanding its dialogue with academia and creating additional opportunities for low-barrier and agile policy advice."
Text: PR/Christl
Picture: ©BMWK/Andreas Mertens
Picture: ©BMWK/Andreas Mertens
Picture: ©BMWK/Andreas Mertens
