Dr. Dr. Armin Steinbach

Academic and Professional Career

• Since 2020: Head of Fiscal Policy Division, German Ministry of Finance, Berlin
• 2017-2020: Head of Economic Policy Division, German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
• 2014-2020: Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
• 2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods,  Bonn
• 2012-2013: Economic policy adviser to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, current German Federal President
• 2012-2013: Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
• Since 2009: Official of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
• 2008-2009: Attorney-at-law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
• 2008: Dispute Settlement Lawyer, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva

Education

• 2017: Habilitation, University of Bonn
• 2013: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University Erfurt
• 2008: Second Legal State Board Examination, admission to the bar
• 2007: Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, scholar German National Academic Foundation
• 2004: M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), Humboldt-University Berlin
• 2004: LL.M. in Comparative and International Law, Free University Brussels, scholar German Academic Exchange Service
• 2003: First Legal State Board Examination

Recent Publications

• Das Amt in einer Gesellschaft der Singularitäten, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosohie, forthcoming
• The Federalism Dimension of Proportionality, European Law Journal, forthcoming
• Neo-Liberalism, State-Capitalism and Ordo-Liberalism: ‚Institutional Economics‘ and ‚Constitutional Choices‘ in Multilevel Trade Regulation, Journal of World Investment & Trade 22 (2021), 1-40 (with Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann)
• Compliance effects of sovereign debt cuts, International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 60, no. 105854 (2019) (with Eckhard Janeba)
• Ökonomische Analyse des Europa- und Völkerrechts, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2019) (with Anne van Aaken)