Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schön
Vice President of the DFG since 2014
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schön
Born 24 July 1961 in Bonn
Wolfgang Schön is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich.
Vita
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 1979 – 1984 | Studies in Law and Economics, University of Bonn |
| 1985 | Doctor Juris, University of Bonn |
| 1985 – 1988 | Practical Training in Law, Bonn / Speyer / Munich / London |
| 1988 – 1992 | Assistant Professor, Institute for Tax Law, University of Bonn |
| 1992 | Habilitation in Civil, Commercial, Business and Tax Law |
| 1992 – 1996 | Full Professor, University of Bielefeld |
| 1996 – 2002 | Full Professor, University of Bonn |
| Since 2002 | Director, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (until 2010: MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law) |
| Since 2002 | Honorary Professor for Civil Law, Business Law and Tax Law, University of Munich |
| 2009 und 2011 | Visiting Professor, New York University Law School |
| 2014 | Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York |
Professional Affiliations (Selection)
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 1998 – 2010 | Member of the Board, German Lawyers‘ Assocation |
| 2001 – 2010 | Chair, Law Professors‘ Working Group on Accounting Law |
| 2003 – 2006 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board to the German Ministry of Finance |
| Since 2003 | Member, Board of Trustees, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam |
| 2003 – 2010 | Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, German Tax Law Association |
| 2006 – | Member of the Research Board, University of Munich |
| 2008 – 2014 | Vice-Chair, Permanent Scientific Committee, International Fiscal Association |
| 2008 – 2014 | Vice President, Member of the Executive Board and of the Senate, Max Planck Society |
| Since 2009 | Member, Board of Trustees, ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich |
| Since 2013 | Member, Board of Trustees, Friends of the Bavarian State Library, Munich |
| Since 2014 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Leibniz Science Campus MaTax, Mannheim |
Scholarships and Awards
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 1980 – 1984 | Scholarship, German Merit Foundation |
| 2003 | Member, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences |
| 2004 | Member, Academia Europaea |
| 2004 – 2005 | Anton Philips Professor, University of Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Since 2006 | International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre of Business Taxation |
| 2009 | Doctor Honoris Causae, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium |
| Since 2009 | Member, Global Law Faculty, New York University |
