Juergen B. Donges

The future of the euro: increasingly full of questions

On 15 November 2012, the Rafael del Pino Foundation hosted the Keynote Lecture "The future of the Euro: increasingly full of questions", given by Juergen B. Donges, Professor Emeritus at the University of Cologne (Germany). Donges Professor Emeritus at the University of Cologne (Germany).

Juergen B. Donges is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Professor Donges was Vice-President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Chairman of the Commission for the Deregulation of the Economy, set up by the German Federal Government. From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the German Federal Government Commission on Public Sector Reform and subsequently Chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts.

Juergen B. Donges is Scientific Advisor to several institutions, among them:
- IWH Institute for Economic Research, Halle/Saale;
- German Foreign Policy Society, Berlin;
- German Federal Office for Telecommunications, Bonn;
- Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.;
- Institute for Global Economics, Seoul;
- Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Madrid.

He is a trustee of several scientific and cultural foundations, including the Fundación ICO, Madrid, and a Corresponding Academician for Germany and a Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf.

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