Lars-Hendrik Röller
President of ESMT
Lars-Hendrik Röller was appointed President of ESMT on September 1, 2006. Before joining ESMT, he was the first Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission. His academic career began at the Department of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, where he held a position at the Institute for Law and Economics. From 1987-1999 he was professor at INSEAD. In 1995 he was appointed Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin where he holds a Chair in Industrial Economics. From 1994-2007 he was the Director of the institute of Competitiveness and Industrial Change at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Europe’s largest social science research center. He is currently the President of ESMT, Professor at Humboldt University, and a Research Professor at the WZB.
Lars-Hendrik Röller is the President of the German Economic Association, a panel member of the European Research Council, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at BRUEGEL in Brussels, Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Scientific Council for Transatlantic Cooperation. From 1996-2003 he was a Director at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and from 2005-2007 President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).
Lars-Hendrik Röller is a Fellow of the European Economic Association and a member of the Berlin Bradenburg Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was awarded the Gossen Prize (to honor a German economist whose work has gained international reputation).
Lars-Hendrik Röller is on the editorial board of several leading international journals and has published extensively in the area of competition, technology and market structure. He has consulted international companies, governments and international organizations on issues of competition, strategy, and regulation. Lars-Hendrik Röller is married and has three children.
