Tilman Brück is Professor of Economic Development and Food Security at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin and the director of the Zero Hunger Lab. He is also a Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops and the Founder and Director of the non-profit ISDC - International Security and Development Center in Berlin, the world’s only research institute dedicated to the micro-economic analysis of conflict and development. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Natural Resources Institute in the UK and an Invited Researcher at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Brück’s research focuses on analysing the behaviour, welfare and food security of poor and vulnerable people in conflict-affected, fragile and humanitarian emergency settings. He also studies how policies and programmes shape lives and livelihoods in such settings and how to collect data and conduct research in challenging circumstances.
Brück has collected large-scale datasets, led many impact evaluations and created international research communities, including co-founding and co-directing the Households in Conflict Network and co-founding the Global Young Academy. He is the founder and PI of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, the region’s longest-running panel study. He is a regular advisor to international organizations, including FAO, IFAD and WFP, as well as national governments and NGOs. He holds a DPhil and MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford and studied political economy at the University of Glasgow.
He is a national of Germany.
