Expertendialog: Wege zur Stärkung des Wirtschaftswachstums in Deutschland

Expert dialogue with Reint Gropp, President of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH), and Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT

A joint event of ESMT Berlin and Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) as part of the Berlin Science Week 2025.

Germany must strengthen its structural growth forces and at the same time make the location future-proof. In this expert dialogue, Reint Gropp, President of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH), and Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, highlight the central levers for more dynamism, including:

• Higher productivity through innovation and AI diffusion
• Efficient capital markets
• Smart fiscal rules

The discussion will be led by the renowned economic and Political journalist Margaret Heckel moderated.

The event is part of the Berlin Science Week 2025 (festival theme “BEYOND NOW”) and will take place in person at the ESMT Campus and in the live stream. Afterwards there is time for questions from the audience.

Speaker:

Prof. Reint Gropp, Ph.D., has been President of the IWH (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle) since 2014 and holds a chair in economics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He is an Associate Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an advisor to various central banks.

Prof. Jörg Rocholl is President of ESMT Berlin and Deutsche Bank Professor in Sustainable Finance. He is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). He is also a member of the supervisory board of RWE AG, a member of the board of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft and a member of acatech (German Academy of Engineering Sciences), a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Before coming to ESMT in 2007, Rocholl was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jörg Rocholl earned both his PhD in Finance and Economics and his MPhil from Columbia Business School and received his degree in economics with honors from the University of Witten/Herdecke.