| CV in brief |
Name:
Otmar Issing |
Date of birth:
27 March 1936 |
Place of birth:
Würzburg, Germany |
| Recent Appointments |
- since 1 June 1998 Vice-President of the European Central Bank (ECB)
- 1990 - 1998 Member of the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- 1988 - 1990 Member of the Council of Experts for the Assessment of Overall Economic Trends at the German Federal Ministry of Economics
- 1973 - 1990 Full professorship at the University of Würzburg; Chair of Economics, Monetary Affairs and International Economic Relations,
- 1967 - 1973 Full professorship at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Director of the Institute for International Economic Relations
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| Membership of Academic & Professional bodies |
- Full member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Academy of Sciences and Literature)
- Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (European Academy of Sciences and Arts)
- Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (Working Party on European Integration)
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| Honorary Degrees |
| 1999 Honorary doctorate awarded by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Frankfurt |
1998 Honorary doctorate awarded by the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Statistics of the University of Constance |
1996 Honorary doctorate awarded by the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of the University of Bayreuth |
since 1991 Honorary professorship at the University of Würzburg |
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| Education |
| 1965 Habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Würzburg; venia legendi for economic theory and economic policy |
| 1961 Doctorate in political sciences at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Würzburg |
| 1960 University degree in Economics |
| Source: ECB |
