
Apl. Prof. Dr. Jann Lay
Lead Research Fellow
Head of RP 3Short CV
10/2015 - 10/2018: Acting Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Since 2015: Apl. Prof. at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Since 2009: Head of GIGA Research Programme 3 "Socio-Economic Development in the Context of Globalisation"
2009 - 2015: Junior-Professor at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen
2007 - 2009: Head of Research Area ‘Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Development’, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
2002 - 2006: Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
Since 2002: Various Consultancies for The World Bank, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the OECD Development Centre (details of selected projects below)
2002: Consultant, OECD Development Centre, Paris, France
2001: Research Assistant, Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, La Paz, Boliva
Education: Doctoral Studies at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; Dr.rer.pol. (summa cum laude); Dissertation on ‘Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks Combining Macro and Micro Approaches: Three Case Studies from Latin America’; Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; Undergraduate Studies at Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, Germany; University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain; University of California, Los Angeles, United States