Tilman Brück

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Citizenship: German
Position at SIPRI: Director
Subject expertise: poverty analysis, labour economics in developing countries, household survey data analysis, economics of conflict and war, post-war reconstruction, economic security, and anti-terrorism policy
Regional expertise: Angola, Colombia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine
Languages: English, German
Education: DPhil in Economics, University of Oxford, UK
Contact: Phone: +46-8-655 9 751
(Senior Management Assistant and Special Assistant to the Director and the Chairman, Cynthia Loo, Email)

 

Professor Tilman Brück became the eighth Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in January 2013. Tilman Brück is a development economist who trained at Glasgow University and Oxford University. His research interests include the inter-relationship between peace, security and development (especially at the micro-level), the economics of post-war reconstruction, and the economics of terrorism and security policy, with country experiences in Angola, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Mongolia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and Ukraine. Tilman Brück also collects and analyses household-level surveys to study poverty and employment and how they relate to conflict. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network and a founding member of the Global Young Academy. He was previously a full professor of development economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin and a head of department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Tilman Brück has also worked as an adviser and consultant for numerous governments and international organizations.

 

 

Current activities
  • Director
Former positions
  • Professor of Development Economics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, since October 2009
  • Head of the Department of Development and Security, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), since June 2003
Professional affiliations
  • Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Member of the Faculty
  • Household in Conflict Network (HiCN), Co-Director
  • Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, Portugal, Visiting Researcher
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Research Fellow
  • Global Young Academy, Founding Fellow
Recent publications
  • Brück, T. and de Groot, O., 'The economic impact of violent conflict: introduction', Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming.
  • Brück, T., Naudé, W. and Verwimp, P., 'Business under fire: entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries', Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming.
  • Bozzoli, C., Brück, T. and Wald, N., 'Self-employment and conflict in Colombia', Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming.
  • Brück, T. and Xu, G., 'Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 28, no. 4 (2012), pp. 593–606.
  • T. Brück and H. Lehmann eds, In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, 2012).
  • Brück, T., de Groot, O. and Schneider, F., 'The economic costs of the German participation in the Afghanistan war', Journal of Peace Research, vol. 48, no. 6 (2011), pp. 793–805.
  • Bozzoli, C., Brück, T. and Muhumuza, T., 'Does war influence individual expectations?', Economics Letters, vol. 113, no. 3 (2011), pp. 288–91.
  • Brück, T., Llussá, F. and Tavares, J., 'Entrepreneurship: the role of extreme events', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 27, no. S1 (2011), pp. 78–88.
  • Brück, T. and Schneider, F., 'Terror and human insecurity: editorial introduction', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 27, no. S1 (2011), pp. S1–S4.
  • Baskaran, T., Blöchl, F., Brück, T. and Theis, F. J., 'The Heckscher–Ohlin model and the network structure of international trade', International Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 20, no. 2 (2011), pp. 135–45.
  • Brück, T., Naudé, W. and Verwimp, P., 'Small business, entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries', Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, vol. 24, no. 2 (2011), pp. 161–78.
  • Brück, T., Brzoska, M. and Drakos, K., 'The economics of security: a European perspective', Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 22, no. 2 (2011), pp. 99–104.
  • Bozzoli, C., Brück, T. and de Groot, O., 'How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict', eds M. Garfinkel and S. Skaperdas, Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Security (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011).
  • Brück, T. and Vothknecht, M., 'Impact of violent conflicts on women’s economic opportunities', eds K. Kuehnast, C. de Jonge Oudraat and H. Hernes, Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century (United States Institute of Peace Press: Washington, DC, 2011), pp. 85–114.
  • Bozzoli, C., Brück, T. and Sottsas, S., 'A survey of the global economic costs of conflict', Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 21, no. 2 (2010), pp. 165–76.
  • Brück, T., Beaudry, C., Hilgenkamp, H., Karoonuthaisiri, N., Salah–Eldin Mohamed, H. and Weiss, G. A., 'Empowering young scientists', Science, vol. 328 (2 Apr. 2010), p. 17.
  • Brück, T. et al., 'Response: the time of young scientists', Science, vol. 329, no. 5992 (6 Aug. 2010), pp. 626–7.
  • Brück, T., Danzer, A., Muravyev, A. and Weißhaar, N., 'Poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine', Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 38, no. 2 (2010), pp. 123–45.
  • Brück, T. and Müller, C., 'Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime', Global Crime, vol. 11, no. 1 (2010), pp. 1–15.
  • Brück, T., Justino, P., Verwimp, P. and Avdeenko, A., 'Identifying conflict and violence in micro–level surveys', HiCN Working Papers no. 79 (2010).