Jan Fidrmuc

Jan Fidrmuc holds the Accueil de talents 2020 chaire d'excellence professorship at Lille Économie Management (L.E.M), Université de Lille. He obtained his PhD from Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 1999. He is also a Research Fellow at the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT), Finland, and faculty associate at PRIGO University in Havířov (Czech Republic). Before joining the Université de Lille, he held appointments at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at Bonn University, Trinity College Dublin, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brunel University London, and served as the founding head (and subsequently external advisor) of the Institute for Strategy and Analysis (ISA) at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic during 2015-2020. Jan Fidrmuc’s research interests include political economy, economic development, institutional economics and labor economics. He has published his research in leading European and international peer-reviewed journals, including the European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Electoral Studies, World Development, and Journal of International Money and Finance.