Kai A. Konrad completed his doctoral studies in economics in 1990 and habilitated in 1993 at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. From 1994 to 2009, he was a university professor in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, and from 2001 to 2009, he was also the director of the Department of Market Processes and Governance at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Since 2009, he has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, since 2011 he is serving as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Since 1999, Konrad has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance, serving as its chair from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel in 2023, primarily for his ‘fundamental theoretical contributions to the economic analysis of strategies in tournaments with applications in industrial economics as well as in political economy’.
