Professor of Development Economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The professorship includes a senior chair in economics, with a focus on development economics, and the directorship of the Ibero-America Centre for Economic Research. Professor Klasen worked as a consultant for, among others, The Worldbank, German Minstry of Economics, The Copenhagen Consensus Project, OECD and UNESCO. He is speaker of the Courant Research Center ‘Poverty, equity, and growth in developing and transition countries.