Brigitte Young

Brigitte was involved in the EU-Horizon 2020 Project, both on the Advisory Board of COFFERS (Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators) from 2016 to 2019 and ion the Advisory Board of EMU_SCEUS (The Choice for Europe since Maastricht. Member States’ Preferences for Economic and Financial Integration) from 2016 to 2020).

For her work on Economics and Gender Equality received Brigitte Young in 2016 the Käthe Leichter Prize of Austria.

Since 2011 she was Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany.

She has held guest professorships at Science Politique in Paris (2008/2009), Science-Politique in Lille (Fall 2010), Warwick University, UK (2011) and Central European University, Budapest (Spring 2012).

Young has worked extensively as an official expert and scientific advisor to state institutions and committees, such as the German parliament, and the European Commission. In 2000 she was appointed as an expert for a period of two years for the Enquete commission of the German parliament on "Globalization and the World Economy - Challenges and Answers" (Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft - Herausforderungen und Antworten). Additionally she has been a member of the large EU-Network of Excellence, “Global Governance, Regionalisation, and Regulation: The Role of the EU” (GARNET) with 47 European universities and think tanks, as well as member of the Management Board (2005–2010). In 2007 Young was a member on the First Warwick Commission on “The Multilateral Trade Regime” (2007) which had the mandate to come up with recommendations for the World Trade Organization to conclude the Doha Development Round. In November 2011 Young was nominated by the Minister of European Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the University of Düsseldorf to advise the state government on the regional impact of the Euro crisis, and to work on possible recommendations to avoid an economic downturn. In addition she has worked for the European Commission in several projects as independent expert and consultant on issues related to innovative research on the Financial crisis of 2007–08 and policy responses. From 2010 to 2014 she was also a German delegate to the EU-COST project on "Systemic Risks, Financial Crises and Credit". Young is also a scientific advisor to the EU-funded multidisciplinary research group FESSUD (Financialization, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development) since 2011.

After obtaining a PhD in International political economy she became a professor at Wesleyan University (1991–1997). Between 1994 and 1995, Brigitte Young was also a Research Fellow in "German and European Studies" at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 1997 to 1999 she taught at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. There she obtained her Habilitation under Elmar Altvater on the topic of "Globalisation and the gender regime." In 1999 she became professor of international political economy at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Münster.

Brigitte Young studied from 1978 to 1982 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Davis, and from 1984 to 1990 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brigitte Young (born 26 May 1946 in Groß Sankt Florian, Austria), is Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany. Her research areas include economic globalization, global governance, feminist economics, international trade, global financial market governance and monetary policy. She has worked on EU-US financial regulatory frameworks, European economic and monetary integration and heterodox economic theories. She is the author of many journal articles and books in English and German on the Global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the US Subprime mortgage crisis, the European sovereign-debt crisis, and the role of Germany and France in resolving the Euro crisis.