Achim Wambach
Chief Executive Officer at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
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Dr. Achim Wambach is a President at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH and a Member-Supervisory Board at TWS Partners AG.
He is on the Board of Directors at TWS Partners AG.
He has been the president of the ZEW and a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim since April 2016.
He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, which he chaired 2012-2015.
He was a member of the Monopolies Commission from 2014 to June 2022 and served as its chairman from 2016 to September 2020.
From 2018 to 2019 he was co-chair of the Commission “Competition Law 4.0” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
From 2015 to 2018 Achim Wambach was a member of the steering committee of the federal government’s National Platform for Electric Mobility (NPE) and from 2017 to 2018 of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Further Development of Risk Structure Compensation Scheme of the Federal Insurance Office.
He was professor of economics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg before taking on the position of Director of the Institute for Economic Policy (iwp) at the University of Cologne.
He obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Oxford and a Master of Science in economics at the London School of Economics.
He completed his habilitation thesis in economics at the University of Munich.
Achim Wambach active positions
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Chief Executive Officer | 2016-03-31 |
TWS Partners AG
 TWS Partners AG Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services TWS Partners AG is a consulting firm that specializes in game theory and behavioral economics. TWS Partners is based in Munich, DE and was founded in 2001 by Achim Wambach and Marcus Schreiber. The German company offers solutions for bilateral and multilateral negotiations, matching markets, carbon incentives, and process optimization. The company has several offices worldwide, including locations in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. TWS Partners has been recognized for its work in science and education, and has recently introduced a new subsidiary, nnamu, which offers AI-based software solutions to make the game theory methodology more widely applicable. Marcus Schreiber has been the CEO since 2001. | Founder | 2000-12-31 |
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Founded in 1990, the firm conducts research in the field of applied and policy-oriented economics and provides national and international research with important data sets via its research data center. They support politicians, companies and administrations at national and European level in overcoming economic policy challenges through in-depth advice. ZEW pursues the economic analysis of functioning markets and institutions in Europe as an overarching research guiding principle. Their main research interests are in the areas of competition and regulation. Methodologically, research at ZEW is based in particular on microeconomic and micro econometric approaches. | Finance |
TWS Partners AG
TWS Partners AG Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services TWS Partners AG is a consulting firm that specializes in game theory and behavioral economics. TWS Partners is based in Munich, DE and was founded in 2001 by Achim Wambach and Marcus Schreiber. The German company offers solutions for bilateral and multilateral negotiations, matching markets, carbon incentives, and process optimization. The company has several offices worldwide, including locations in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands. TWS Partners has been recognized for its work in science and education, and has recently introduced a new subsidiary, nnamu, which offers AI-based software solutions to make the game theory methodology more widely applicable. Marcus Schreiber has been the CEO since 2001. | Commercial Services |
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