Abel Schumann

Economist in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate at Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

Abel Schumann works as an Economist in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the OECD. He co-authored several OECD flagship publications on metropolitan governance and the determinants of regional growth. He is currently leading an OECD research programme on land use governance that will analyse the relation between planning systems, land use patterns and economic outcomes. Abel Schumann holds a PhD in economics from Stockholm School of Economics and an undergraduate degree from Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He worked as Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics and studied at the New School for Social Research, New York.

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Why metropolitan governance matters a lot more than you think

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