Paul J. J. Welfens

Who is Paul J. J. Welfens?

Paul JJ Welfens is a German economist. He studied economics in Wuppertal, and Duisburg in Germany, and in Paris, France. He obtained his PhD in 1985 and his full professorship in 1989 after which he became professor at the Wilhelms University of Münster and the University of Potsdam. Since 2004 Welfens is the chair professor for economics with a focus on macroeconomic theory and policy at the Bergisch University of Wuppertal, and is the Jean-Monnet-Professor for European Integration. In 2007 he took a visiting professorship at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. In the same year he was the first German to be awarded the silver medal of the International N. D. Kondratiev Foundation. Welfens is founder and president of the European Institute for International Economic Relations at the University of Wuppertal.