Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Ulrike Malmendier

Ulrike Malmendier has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022. She is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business.

Previously she was Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics der University of California in Berkeley. Since 2016 she is also briq Visiting Professor am Institute on Behaviour and Inequality in Bonn. She was director of the American Finance Association and director of the Committee on the Status of Women from 2013 until 2015. Until 2006 she was Assistant Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She was visiting fellow at the Princeton University, visiting assistant professor of finance at the University of Chicago, visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn and at the Oxford University. Her research interests are corporate finance, behavioural economics/behavioural finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics, law and finance. Her research is published in leading journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance and Journal of Economic Literature. She has earned numerous awards including the Fischer Black Prize of the American Finance Association (best finance researcher under 40), the Gustav-Stolper Prize of the German Economic Association, and the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation.

Ulrike Malmendier received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University, and her PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn.

She is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, a CESifo affiliate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) and member of the Advisory Board of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Sie has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Econometric Society.