Wido Geis

Wido Geis, born in 1981, did a degree in International Economics at the University of Tübingen, specialising in Eastern Asia (China). The Eberhard-Karls university of Tübingen awarded him the prize for best doctoral thesis in economics for his 2011 doctoral thesis on the subject “From immigration to integration: four essays on economic aspects of the transition Process”. From 2007 to 2011 he held the post of Junior economist at the IFO, Institute for Economic Research, in Munich, working in the areas of social policy and labour markets. Since 2011, Wido geis has been working as an economist at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research in the competence area of human capital and innovation, focusing particularly on issues relating to family policy and immigration.