Klaus F. Zimmermann is President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Full Professor Emeritus of Economics at Bonn University; Professor Emeritus, Maastricht University; Honorary Professor: Free University of Berlin, University of Edinburgh, Jinan University (Institute for Economic and Social Research, IESR), Lixin University (Shanghai), and Renmin University of China (Beijing); Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences), and Elected Fellow: CORE Academy (Hongkong). Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA). Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics and of the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
Honors: Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank. Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017; Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, Australia; EBES Fellow Award 2018 of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society. George Soros Chair at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Spring 2019. IEA Fellow Award 2022 of the International Economic Association. Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 & 2026.
Fields: Population, migration, labor, development
Publication and communication: Zimmermann has published 53 books, 192 papers in refereed research journals, 158 chapters in collected volumes, 11 contributions to handbooks and encyclopedias, 113 contributions to policy journals and reports and over 542 media pieces. He is committed to the diffusion of research to policy and society, writes regularly in leading international media and advises governments, the European Commission and the World Bank on labor market and migration issues.