ESF-IfW Conferences

The ESF-IfW conference series is supported by a scientific advisory council that comprises leading scholars in the fields of medicine, health economics and related sciences and a number of leading representatives from German health care finance, industry and politics. These include

• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Beisiegel, Director of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Eppendorf Research Hospital of the University of Hamburg,
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Klusen, Chairman of the Board of Techniker Krankenkasse, Hamburg, Germany’s most innovative sickness fund,
• Dr. Hellmut Körner, Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Health, and Family Policy in Schleswig-Holstein,
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Heiner Raspe, Director of the Institute for Social Medicine at the Medical University of Lübeck,
• Dr. Wolfgang Reim, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG, a Dräger and Siemens Company, and Member of the Board of Drägerwerk AG, Lübeck,
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst Theodor Rietschel, Director of the Biomedical Research Center at Borstel and President of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, one of Germany's largest research organizations with an extensive research portfolio in both medicine and economics and a total of 84 autonomous research institutes,
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreiber, Director of the Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology at the University of Kiel and Director of the German National Genome Research Network,
• Prof. Dr. J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Director of the Institute for Insurance Economics and Director of the Research Center for Health Economics and Health Systems Research at the University of Hannover, and
• Prof. Dennis Snower, Ph.D., the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Chair of the Department for Economic Theory at the University of Kiel.

For more information, please contact Michael Stolpe, the Coordinator of the Kiel Institute’s Global Health Research Network.