Henrik Enderlein

Enderlein spent his childhood in Tübingen, a town in the German State of Baden-Württemberg. He studied Political Science and Economics at Sciences Po in Paris. He then started a doctoral fellowship at Columbia University in New York from 1998 to 1999, where he earned an M.A.. From 1999 to 2001 he became a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and completed his PhD. His thesis supervisor was Fritz W. Scharpf.[2]

Enderlein worked at the EU Institutions and Fora Division of the European Central Bank from 2001-2003, before becoming Assistant Professor in Economics at the Free University of Berlin. He joined the Hertie School as founding member of the faculty in 2005. From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding member on the independent German Fiscal Council (Unabhängiger Beirat des Stabilitätsrats), a body devised as part of Germany’s national implementation of the European Fiscal Compact.

In 2014, Enderlein founded the Berlin-based Jacques Delors Institute, a think-tank focusing on European integration, which was integrated into the Hertie School as Jaques Delors Centre in 2018 It combines a think-tank arma and a research-arm and is one of the largest research Centres on Europe in Germany.[3]

Enderlein held visiting positions at Duke University (USA) as Fulbright Distinguished Chair (2006-2007),[4] Harvard University as Pierre-Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School[5] and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2012-2013),[6] and at the European University Institute as Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (2017-2018).[7]

In September 2018, Enderlein became president of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.[8]

Enderlein is considered a friend and political ally of French President Emmanuel Macron.[9] In 2014, he co-authored “Reforms and Investment and Growth: An Agenda for France, Germany and Europe” (with Jean Pisani-Ferry), a report commissioned by the Ministers for Economic Affairs Emmanuel Macron of France and Sigmar Gabriel of Germany. The Report sparked controversy in France at the time,[10] but later became a blueprint for Emamanuel Macron's program as candidate for the French Presidency, which Jean Pisani-Ferry oversaw as campaign director.

Enderlein is regularly listed among the 100 most influtential German economists by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. [11]

Enderlein's research focus is on the European Union, in particular economic policy-making in the Eurozone and on the study of sovereign debt crises.