Jutta Allmendinger

Prof. Jutta Allmendinger is president of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and professor of educational sociology and labor market research at Humboldt University Berlin. She has held both positions since 2007. In addition, she has served as honorary professor of sociology at Freie Universität Berlin since 2012. After studying sociology and social psychology at the universities of Mannheim and Madison, Wisconsin, she earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University and went on to get her habilitation degree from Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1992 and 2007, she was a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich; between 2003 and 2007, she served as director of the German Federal Employment Agency’s Institute of Labor Market and Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. In her research, Jutta Allmendinger explores issues of social inequality from a life course perspective, with a special emphasis on the education and employment system and welfare state structures. Jutta Allmendinger serves on numerous advisory boards in Germany and abroad. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2007), and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Since 2012, Jutta Allmendinger has served on the board of trustees of the Stiftung Bildung Foundation and on the board of trustees of the Foundation of German Business (sdw). In 2014, she became a member of the Goethe Institute. Among the awards she received for her research and her social involvement are the German Federal Cross of Merit (First class), the Berlin Order of Merit, the Schader Award, the Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation and the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities, and the Marsilius Medal of the University of Heidelberg. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tampere, Finland. In 2015, she was appointed Senior Fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.