Jürgen Maurer, PhD

Jürgen Maurer is currently professor of health economics and management at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His main research interests lie in the fields of health, population and development economics, with a special focus on aging and human development in both developing and developed countries. In addition, he is also very interested in bordering fields such as applied econometrics, demography, global health, psychology, sociology and survey research. Prof. Maurer hold a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. After completion of his Ph.D. in 2005, he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London (UK), as a research economist at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the University of Mannheim in Germany and as a health and population economist and survey researcher in the Washington, DC office of the RAND Corporation, a US-based think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. In addition to his main activities at the University of Lausanne, Prof. Maurer is also a fellow of the Center for Economics and Social Research (CESR) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a senior fellow of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), an external affiliate of the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York in the UK, and an adjunct economist at the RAND Corporation.