Alexander Ludwig is Professor for Public Finance and Debt Management at the Research Center SAFE, Goethe University, Frankfurt since 2014. He is also the Program Director for the Research Area Macro Finance – Monetary Policy and Fiscal Stability from 2005. Previously, he was Professor for Macroeconomics at University of Cologne and prior to that, he was Assistant Professor at University of Mannheim and Head of Research Unit “Macroeconomics” at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).

Ludwig earned a Doctoral degree in Economics from University of Mannheim in 2005.