Rainer Muenz

Senior Research Associate

Rainer Muenz is an expert in demography and international migration. During his career he has worked as an academic, in the private sector and as a government adviser. He currently teaches at the Central European University (Vienna). Between 2015 and 2019 he was an Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre, the in-house think tank of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. He also chaired the Advisory Board of the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM, Geneva). Prior to join-ing the European Commission, Muenz was Head of Research and Development at Erste Group, a Central European retail bank. He also worked as a Senior Fellow at the European macro-economic think tank Bruegel (Brussels), the Hamburg Institute of International Economics and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI, Washington, DC).