A.SK Selection Committee
Every two years, an international committee led by chairperson Dorothea Kübler selects the prize recipients.
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler is the director of the department of Market Behavior at the WZB and a Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Berlin. Her research uses experimental methods and game theory to examine decision-making behavior and market design. In recent years, among other things, her work concentrates on the centralized procedure for awarding places at universities in Germany, looks at the influence of social and moral standards in markets, and also studies educational choices and discrimination in the labor market. Dorothea is a founding member of the “Matching in Practice” network, a member of the senate of the DFG (German Science Foundation), and the deputy chairwoman of the Einstein Foundation, Berlin.
Prof. Dr. h.c. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Ph.D. is the president of the WZB and Professor of Macroeconomics at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is Program Director of the "Macroeconomics and Growth" program area at the Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR) in London/Paris and an elected member of the Econometric Society, member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and on the scientific advisory boards of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action and the Deutsche Bundesbank.
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D. was the president of the WZB and a professor of educational sociology and market labor research at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin from 2008 to 2024. She was previously the director of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg (2003–2007).
Prof. Sir Richard Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and the Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was the Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1986-2016. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003). Blundell was predicted to win the Nobel Prize in 2015 by Reuters along with two other notable economists, Chicago economist John A. List for his work on field experiments and Northwestern economist Charles Manski, for his work on the reflection problem.
Gøsta Esping-Andersen is professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is a member of the British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as member of the scientific board at the Danish National Institute for Social Research, the CEACS of the Juan March Institute, IMDEA, and the Danish Strategic Research Council.
Prof. Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard College Professor, and the former Chair of the Department of Government. She holds lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.