Lüder Gerken (born 30 July 1958 in Bremen) is a German economist.
He completed his habilitation in 1998 at the University of Bayreuth, where he received a teaching post for Economics.
From 1999 to 2021, he was chairman of the executive board of Stiftung Ordnungspolitik and the Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Stiftung; from 2006 to 2021 he has been director of the Centrum für Europäische Politik, a think tank that analyzes EU-policies.
[2] Gerken has been a member of the board of trustees for the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft.
In his work, his main focus is on national and international ordoliberal policy, European integration and location competition.