Axel Börsch-Supan (born 28 December 1954 in Darmstadt) is a German researcher, economist and director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, Germany.

An important field of his empirical research focuses on socio-political issues that are associated with economic aspects of demographic change and the aging of the population.

[1] Axel Börsch-Supan studied mathematics and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Bonn, from which he graduated in 1980, receiving his diploma for his thesis titled Stability and step size control for the solution of parabolic partial differential equations with finite difference methods.

The topic of his dissertation was Housing Demand in the United States and West Germany: A Discrete Choice Analysis under the supervision of Daniel McFadden.

[5] Börsch-Supan is member of the Council of Advisors to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (chair 2004-08),[6] was a member of the German federal governments’ Commissions on Pension Reform (2003, 2016) and the Expert Group on Demographic Change, the advisory group on demographic change of President Horst Köhler, and the European Statistics Advisory Committee (ESAC).