Dr Achim Truger
Dr Achim Truger is a senior economist at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) at Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany where he is responsible for the Public Finance and Tax Policy unit. He studied economics at Cologne University where he graduated in 1992. In 1993-99 he was research associate at the Department of Public Finance and the Public Finance Research Institute at Cologne University. He received his doctoral degree in 1997. In 1999-2004 he worked as senior economist at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Dueseldorf before he joined the IMK in 2005.