[1] Weizsäcker previously served as head of the Secretariat of the G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force on Pandemic Preparedness in 2022 and as the chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance under minister Olaf Scholz from 2019 to 2022.

After attending Atlantic College in Wales, Weizsäcker studied at Bonn University and worked for Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste in Poland instead of military service.

Weizsäcker started work as a research fellow with Jean-Charles Hourcade at CIRED in Paris and then with Hans-Werner Sinn at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich.

[3] In 2013, he and Maximilian Steinbeis founded the Glienicker Gruppe, a group of pro-European lawyers, economists and political scientists, together with Henrik Enderlein, Marcel Fratzscher, Clemens Fuest and others.

When Jens Weidmann announced his resignation as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank in 2021, the Financial Times mentioned Weizsäcker as one of the leading contenders to succeed him.