Willi Semmler is a German born American economist who currently teaches at The New School in New York.

He has a PHD (Dr. rer pol) and a Habilitation from the Free University of Berlin.

US and EU macroeconomics, and monetary and fiscal policy, disparities in income and wealth distribution, dynamic portfolio decisions, financing climate policies, climate policies and green jobs, empirics of nonrenewable and renewable energy, and economic comments in Spiegel Online, see External Links.

Semmler’s policy research has also been featured in working paper series of the World Bank, IMF, ECB, and ILO.

Grant from the German Research Foundation, on Macroeconomics and Inequality, August 2015 – 2016 Grant from the German Research Foundation jointly with Stephan Klasen, on Infrastructure against Climate Risk, August 2012 – 2013, extension 2015-2016 Thyssen Foundation grant for a two year speaker series on Global Warming and Renewable Energy, August 2012-August 2014, extension 2015-2020 One year grant from the Center for European Economics Research (ZEW), Mannheim, on a research project on Financial Stress and Economic Dynamics: Asymmetries within and Across European Countries, June 2012-June 2013 Fulbright Professorship, University of Economics, Vienna, 2012[4] Grant from the Walker Foundation on "The Economics of Global Warming II: Renewable Energy", September 2011[5]