Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.

Jutta Allmendinger has served as President of the WZB Social Science Center Berlin since 2007. She holds a chair in Educational Sociology and Labor Market Research at Humboldt University and thus serves as an Honorary Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin. Allmendinger studied at the University of Mannheim and the University of Madison, Wisconsin, and earned her Ph.D. in Social Studies at Harvard University. Prior to her current positions, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the Harvard Business School, at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, and served as director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg. Between 1999 and 2002, she was chairperson of the German Sociological Association. Jutta Allmendinger has served on various advisory and supervisory boards and is a member of several academies of sciences. The Thomas Mann Fellowship 2018 of Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House eV has received a number of national and international awards.