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. 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.

Prof. Claudia Diehl is Professor of Microsociology at the University of Konstanz and co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality. She held positions at the Federal Institute for Population Research and the University of Göttingen before joining Konstanz. She also serves on major advisory and academic boards and is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Prof. Sir Tim Besley is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition to his research, he brings extensive political experience from working with governments and international organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. His particular area of interest is political economy.