Joel Hellman

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Brussels office, bringing unique expertise from his military service as First Lieutenant in the Danish Army's Intelligence School and work with the UN in Iraq. After earning degrees from the University of Aarhus, Columbia University, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins SAIS, he has authored influential works including "The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce" and "US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries." His research encompasses European economic reform, immigration policy, foreign direct investment, pension systems, demographics, and technology's impact on globalization, with his paper on financial repression garnering over 170 citations. As a coeditor of "Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity" and contributor to numerous policy discussions, he combines academic rigor with practical policy expertise, regularly providing insights on European economic policy, immigration reform, and global investment trends through his work at prestigious think tanks and international organizations.