Prof. Dr. Nils Goldschmidt
Professor Nils Goldschmidt
Nils Goldschmidt has been Director of the Global Ethic Institute since February 2025. He is also, concurrently, Professor of Contextual Economics and Economic Education at the University of Siegen and a member of the German Ethics Council.
In previous professional positions, Goldschmidt was Professor of Social Policy and Social Administration at the Munich University of Applied Sciences as well as Visiting Professor of Social Policy and Organization of Social Services at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. He has held visiting professorships at Roosevelt University in Chicago and the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Nils Goldschmidt is involved in numerous academic and social organizations, including as Chairman of the Alliance for the Social Market Economy in Tübingen, the Board of Trustees of the Ludwig Erhard Forum in Berlin, and the Advisory Board of the Roman Herzog Institute in Munich. He is also Deputy Chairman of the German Society for Economic Education (DeGÖB) and advisor to the German Bishops’ Conference on societal and social issues.
Professor Goldschmidt is a board member of the Görres Society in Bonn and an affiliated fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg. He is co-editor of several journals and series, including the Journal of Contextual Economics, ORDO, and the Zeitschrift für Politik.
His academic work has been published in renowned journals such as the Journal of Economic Inequality, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, the Review of Austrian Economics, the Journal of Economic Issues, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and the Journal of Institutional Economics.
In addition to his academic work, Goldschmidt regularly writes guest articles for newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is a sought-after interview partner for radio and television.
His most recent books include “Gekippt: Was wir tun können, wenn Systeme außer Kontrolle geraten” (2021, together with Stephan Wolf) and ‘75 Jahre Soziale Marktwirtschaft in 7,5 Kapiteln’ (2023, together with Stefan Kolev).
Goldschmidt studied Catholic theology and economics at the University of Freiburg, where he completed his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2001 and his habilitation in economics in 2008. His research interests include regulatory economics, business ethics, economic education, social policy and the history and methodology of economic thought.