Axel Dreher (born September 17, 1972) is a German economist.
[3] [4] ScholarGPS includes him as a top-300 economist and among the leading 10,000 scientists of all fields worldwide.
[5] As professor of economics at the University of Göttingen and assistant professor at the universities of Mannheim, Exeter, Konstanz and ETH Zurich he has worked in fields including: Dreher is professor of international and development politics at the Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg.
[1] He developed the KOF Index of Globalization at ETH in Zürich, is part of the team providing the Geocoded Official Development Dataset (GODAD)[6] and is editor-in-chief of the Review of International Organizations.
He is Co-Director of the Center for European Studies (CefES), Faculty Associate of AidData, Fellow of CEPR, CESifo, KOF, and the European Development Network, as well as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.