Jakob VON WEIZSÄCKER

Bio

Jakob von Weizsäcker has been Minister of Finance and Science in the state of Saarland since April 2022. Previously, he headed the secretariat of the Joint Task Force of the G20 finance and health ministers with the aim of learning lessons from the Corona crisis to improve global pandemic preparedness. From 2019 to 2022 he was “Chief Economist” at the Federal Ministry of Finance and Director General of the department for fundamental policy issues and international financial policy. From 2014 to 2019 he was a Member of the European Parliament for Thuringia, where he previously headed the department for economic policy and tourism in the Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs since 2010. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as resident fellow at Bruegel, a leading European policy think tank in Brussels. After studying in mathematics, physics and computer science at the University of Bonn, he completed his studies with a maîtrise in physics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a Diplôme d'études approfondies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.