UCL Professor Christian Dustmann is awarded the Reimar Lüst Prize 2023

11 January 2024

Christian Dustmann, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London has been awarded the Reimar Lüst Prize for international science and cultural communication.

The Reimar Lüst Prize is a joint research prize for international science and cultural communication awarded by the Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Award winners have rendered outstanding services as multipliers for the sustainable promotion of bilateral relations between Germany and their home country in science and through science. The award bears the name of the astrophysicist and former President (1989-1999) of the Humboldt Foundation Reimar Lüst (1923-2020). Together with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards up to two Reimar Lüst Awards each year to highly respected humanities scholars and social scientists from abroad.

The Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) is an independent and interdisciplinary research centre located in the Department of Economics at University College London. CReAM aims to inform the public debate on labour economics and migration in the UK and in Europe by providing new insight and helping to steer the current policy debate in a direction that is based on carefully researched evidence without partisan bias.

Christian Dustmann is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and the founding Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). He was the President of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) (2017-2021) which he helped founding. He has also been President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE). Professor Dustmann is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). In 2020 he was awarded the 2020 Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize by the German National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Dustmann is a highly respected scientist and leading labour economist working in areas such as migration, the economics of education, the economics of crime, social networks, technology, income mobility, wage dynamics and inequality. He held visiting professor positions at UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. Professor Dustmann’s work has appeared in leading academic journals and he was ranked #1 in the 2019 Handelsblatt economists ranking among research-intensive economists from German-speaking countries and German-speaking economists abroad. He regularly advises government bodies, international organizations, and the media on current policy issues.

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