Henrik Enderlein (13 September 1974 – 28 May 2021) was a German economist and political scientist. He was president and professor of political economy at the Hertie School in Berlin and founding director of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School. He held degrees from

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and earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as an economist at the

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. He held visiting professorships at

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(Chair Pierre Keller, 2012–2013) and at

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(Chair Fulbright, 2006–2007).

Life and career

Enderlein spent his childhood in

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, a town in the German State of

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. He studied Political Science and Economics at

in Paris. He then started a doctoral fellowship at

in New York from 1998 to 1999, where he earned an M.A. From 1999 to 2001 he became a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in

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and completed his PhD. His thesis supervisor was Fritz W. Scharpf. Enderlein worked at the EU Institutions and Fora Division of the

from 2001–2003, before becoming Assistant Professor in Economics at the

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. He joined the Hertie School as founding member of the faculty in 2005. From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding member on the independent German Fiscal Council ( Unabhängiger Beirat des Stabilitätsrats), a body devised as part of Germany’s national implementation of the European Fiscal Compact. In 2014, Enderlein founded the Berlin-based Jacques Delors Institute, a think-tank focusing on European integration, which was integrated into the Hertie School as Jaques Delors Centre in 2018. It combines a think-tank arm and a research arm and is one of the largest research centres on Europe in Germany. Enderlein held visiting positions at

(USA) as Fulbright Distinguished Chair (2006–2007),

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as Pierre-Keller Visiting Professor at

and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2012–2013), and at the

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as visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (2017–2018). In September 2018, Enderlein became president of the

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in Berlin. Enderlein was considered a friend and political ally of French President

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. In 2014, he co-authored “Reforms and Investment and Growth: An Agenda for France, Germany and Europe” (with

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), a report commissioned by the Ministers for Economic Affairs

of France and Sigmar Gabriel of Germany. The Report sparked controversy in France at the time, but later became a blueprint for Emmanuel Macron's program as candidate for the French Presidency, which

oversaw as campaign director. On 17 February 2021, the Hertie School announced that Enderlein would step down as President of the School effective on 1 March 2021. Enderlein disclosed that his decision was driven by having been diagnosed with stage 4

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(a form of skin cancer) in late 2020. Enderlein died of complications resulting from cancer on 27 May 2021 at age 46. To honor Enderlein's memory, the Hertie School established the Henrik Enderlein Prize, which is awarded annually to a European researcher in the social sciences under the age of forty, whose work is considered to have made an outstanding contribution in her or his field.

Research

Enderlein's research focus was on the European Union, in particular economic policy-making in the Eurozone and on the study of sovereign debt crises.

References

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