Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Lic. rerum politicarum (Master in Economics), University of Basle, 1964
• Doctor rerum politicarum (summa cum laude; Ph.D. in Economics), 1965
• Habilitation, 1969

Occupations

• Permanent Visiting Professor, University of Basel 2015-
• Research Director, CREMA – Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland, 2000-
• Member of the Top Council of the University of Lucerne, 2007-2024
• Senior Professor of Economics at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, DE, 2013-2015
• Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK, 2010-2013
• Associate Professor of Economics, University of Basle, 1969-2006
• Guest Professor, University of St. Gallen, 1993-2006, 2010
• Full Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, 1977-2012
• Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 2007-2009
• Visiting Research Professor of Business Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1990-1991

Major Awards

• Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), 1998
• Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Goeteborg (Sweden), 1998
• Honorary Doctorate of Economics, Free University of Brussels (Belgium), 2009
• Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille (France), 2010
• Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Innsbruck (Austria), 2011

• Röpke Prize of the Liberale Instituts, Zürich
• Friedrich von Wieser Prize, Prague
• Gustav-Stolper Preis, Verein für Socialpolitik                                         

Achievement Evaluations

• In 2023, Frey stands in fourth place in the world (and No 1 in Switzerland) among the “Best Political Science Scientists” which is published by Research.com Institution Research-Papers in Economics (RePEc).
• In 2021, Frey has mounted from the fifth to the fourth place in the ranking of „important economists“ in Switzerland by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ, 16th September 2021)
• In the corresponding ranking for Germany, he moved up from the ninth to eighth place. Published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, 24th September 2021)
• For many years he has been number one with respect to „Life Achievement“ by the Handelsblatt in Germany (Handelsblatt, 23th September 2021)
• According to ISI – The Institute for Scientific Information – Bruno S. Frey belongs to „The Most Highly Cited Researchers“

Activities and Memberships

• Managing Editor of Kyklos from 1969-2015, now Honorary Editor; in addition, member of a great number of Editorial Boards
• Honorary Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics 2022
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea)

Bruno S. Frey – Short Biography – english (PDF)
Bruno S. Frey – Kurzbiographie – deutsch (PDF)

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