It is headed by President Achim Wambach and Managing Director Claudia von Schuttenbach.
According to the RePEc ranking, ZEW is one of the leading European economic research institutes.
The ZEW's expertise lies particularly in the field of applied microeconometrics and computable general equilibrium models.
[11] The urban design was developed by the Mannheim architectural firm #Carlfried Mutschler und Partner Joachim Langner, Christine Mäurer and Ludwig Schwöbel.
The architectural design was developed by the successor office of Ludwig Schwöbel and Christine Mäurer.