Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr Director of the Ifo Center for International Economics PhD, was born on June 24, 1976 in Steyr, Austria. After his studies in Economics and Trade at the University of Linz, he went to Florence, Italy, for his doctoral studies and to Tübingen, Germany, for his habilitation. Since 2011, he holds both a position as Director International Economics at the Ifo Insti- tute and as Professor of Economics, esp. International Economics, at the Department of Economics of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Before that, he was Full Profes- sor at the University of Hohenheim, near Stuttgart, Germany (2009-2011), Assistant Pro- fessor at the University of Tübingen, Germany (2005-2009), worked as an Associate Con- sultant for McKinsey & Co. in Vienna, Austria (2004-2005), and was an Assistant Profes- sor at the Institute for Economics at Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Gabriel Felbermayr has various roles and positions. The most important are: Associate Editor European Economic Review; Associate Editor, International Review of Economics and Finance; Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Tü- bingen; External Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham. For his research, Felbermayr was awarded several prices: in 2013, he received the Ralph C. d' Arge and Allen Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of Environ- mental Economics and Management; in the Handelsblatt (2015) Ranking of Economists in German speaking Countries, he is listed on rank 4 in the list of the top 100 researchers under 40 years of age and on rank 26 in the list of top 100 most productive researchers; in 2007 he won the Reinhard Selten Prize of the German Economic Association. His research deals with international trade agreements, trade and labor market out- comes, trade and environment. For further details and publications, see http://www.ce- sifo-group.de/felbermayr-g . .