Prof. Dr. Beate Jochimsen

since 09/2025 Seconded to the Federal Chancellery as Head of Directorate for National and International Economic Policy

02/2019–01/2023 Member of the Council of Experts for the Assessment of Developments in the Health and Long-Term Care System (SVR Gesundheit)

2012–2018 Research Director for Federalism Analysis, DIW Berlin

since 04/2010 Full Professor of Public Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

2010 venia legendi (post-doctoral degree) in economics, Free University of Berlin.

2002–03/2010 Assistant Professor, Free University of Berlin, Institute of Public Finance and Social Policy, and associated post-doc researcher at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin.

2000–2001 Chief of staff to the minister of finance of the state, Berlin.

2000 Ph.D. in economics, Technical University Berlin.

09–12/1997 Visiting Fellow, European University Institute Florence, Italy.

1996–1999 Research Assistant, Institute for Economics, Technical University of Berlin.

1995 Diplom-Volkswirtin, (Equivalent to a Master in Economics), University of Cologne.

1994 M.Sc. (Econ.) in European Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

1988–1990 Apprenticeship, Deutsche Bank Berlin AG.

Fiscal Federalism, Public Debt, Fiscal Equalization, Public Budgets, Political Economy

Health Economics, Economics of Social Policy, Bureaucracy, Tax Revenue Forecasting

Public Economics

Microeconomics

Health Economics

Political Economics

Research projects in the fields of health economics (including outpatient and inpatient care, social insurance financing, and health system resilience) and public finance (including the effects of fiscal rules and the private provision of public goods).
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Numerous expert and advisory roles for the OECD, the German Federal Government, various state governments, and the healthcare sector.

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Various universities, in particular the Universities of Cologne, Siegen, Augsburg, and the Free University and Technical University of Berlin

Ifo Institute, Munich

Berlin Centre for Empirical Economics (BCEE)

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Federal Ministry of Finance, and Federal Ministry of Health

Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)