Bernd Lucke

Bernd Lucke
Bernd Lucke in 2014
Born	(1962-08-19) 19 August 1962 (age 54) West Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Institution	University of Hamburg
Field	Macroeconomics
Alma mater	University of Bonn
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Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist and politician, and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Hamburg, a co-founder of "Wahlalternative 2013" (translated: "Electoral Alternative 2013"), and a founding member of the Alternative for Germany. Lucke lost out on the leadership of the AfD in July 2015, and subsequently left the party. In July 2015 he and other former AfD members founded the political party Liberal-Konservative Reformer (formerly ALFA).

Between 1982 and 1984, Lucke read economics, history, and philosophy at the University of Bonn and attended graduate studies in economics at the universities of Bonn and Berkeley between 1984 and 1987. He finished his PhD on real business cycle theory under supervision of Jürgen Wolters at the Free University of Berlin in 1991. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worked in the Council of Economic Experts of the East German Government and, after reunification, as an assistant to the Senate of Berlin. His research interests include sovereign default, news driven business cycles, growth in developing countries, dynamic CGE models, and applied econometrics.

Lucke was an advisor to the World Bank and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Lucke is a frequent guest in German political talk shows. He is married and has five children.