Klaus Zimmermann (economist)

Klaus Felix Zimmermann (born December 2, 1952) is a German economist and emeritus professor of economics at Bonn University.

[2] Born in Göppingen, Zimmermann obtained a graduate diploma, his PhD and his habilitation in economics from the University of Mannheim in 1978, 1985 and 1987, respectively.

In Bonn, Zimmermann became the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a position which he held until 2016.

In 2016, Zimmermann left IZA prior to a major restructuring and accepted an honorary professorship at Maastricht University.

A year later, Zimmermann helped found and became the president of the Global Labor Organization, an international research and policy network on labour, demographics and human resources.