Heiner Flassbeck is an Economics Professor (Hamburg University), former Deputy Minister of Finance of Germany (1998-1999), and the former Director of Globalisation Strategies for the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD, 2003-2012). Flassbeck has also worked as Chief Macroeconomist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), and member of the staff of the German Council of Economic Experts. In 2016 he founded the Makroskop consultancy for global macroeconomics.