Head of Research & Development at Erste Group Bank AG

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 Depart-
ment 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 Depart- ment of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University, Vienna (2001-2002).
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) Slovene (2008) and Swedish (2009) EU pre- sidencies. In 2000-01 he was member of the German commission on immigration reform (Süssmuth commission). Since 2008 he is Member of the high level “Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030” of the European Union (so-called EU “Group of the Wise”).