Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Michalski

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Wolfgang Michalski
Wolfgang Michalski is an internationally recognized expert in the analysis of longer-term economic, social and technological developments and their implications for decision making. He is Managing Director of WM International, a company providing strategic analysis and policy advice to governments, international organizations and business.

From 1980 until the end of 2001, he was Director of the Advisory Unit to the Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His prime responsibility was to identify and analyze the emerging domestic and international economic policy issues likely to confront Member governments in the years to come, and help decision-makers in government and business to identify and evaluate the strategic challenges of a rapidly changing world economy.

Before and after his activities for the OECD, Wolfgang Michalski was called upon at many occasions to act as economic advisor and/or consultant for individual OECD governments and for major multinational enterprises. His contributions include in-depth analysis on longer-term economic development prospects of China, India, Japan and Mexico as well as regional studies for Scotland in the UK and for the metropolitan region of Hamburg in Germany. Wolfgang Michalski received a PhD in economics in 1964; he qualified for full professorship in 1970 and has held a professorship in economics at the University of Hamburg since 1974. He has published 13 books and more than 150 papers (translated into more than ten languages) on economic growth, structural adjustment and international trade policies. He was awarded a Dr. honors cause by the Warsaw School of Economics in 2001.

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