Torben M. Andersen is professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. He holds an M.Sc. from London School of Economics (1981), a Lic. Oecon from Aarhus University (1994), and a PhD from CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1986).
His primary research interests include the economics of the Nordic welfare model, public economics, labour economics, and the economics of pensions. Within these fields, he has published extensively in internationally recognized journals as well as books.
Torben M. Andersen is a fellow at international research centres, including CEPR (London), IZA (Bonn) and CESifo (Munich).
He has been actively involved in policy advice in Denmark, the other Nordic countries, a number of other countries, the OECD, the EU Commission, and the World Bank. He has served as chairman of, among others, the Danish Economic Council and the Welfare Commission, the European Economy Advisory Group, and been vice-chair of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council.
He is currently, chairman of the board for the DREAM modelling group, the Economic Council for Greenland, and the Danish pension fund ATP, and member of the board of the Aarhus University Research Foundation (and some of its subsidiaries), the Systemic Risk Council Faroe Islands, Danish Economic Council, Industriens Fond and Politiken Fonden.
