Paul J.J. Welfens (29 January 1957 – 11 November 2022) was[citation needed] a German economist.
He was born in Düren, West Germany and studied economics in Wuppertal, Duisburg and Paris.
In the same year he was the first German to be awarded the silver medal of the International N. D. Kondratiev Foundation.
Welfens was founder and president of the European Institute for International Economic Relations (EIIW) at the University of Wuppertal, which is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute looking at issues such as globalization and multinational companies, banking developments and capital markets, ICT and digitalization, trade, economic integration amongst others.
[1] He has published books and journal papers on many pressing contemporary issues concerning economic integration and the world economy, including on Brexit, structural populism in the US under President Trump and the impact on US-EU-China/Asia relations, and most recently on the macroeconomic and health system effects of the coronavirus pandemic.