Uwe Sunde is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He studied economics at the Universities of Warwick (England) and Munich, where he received the degree of Diplom Volkswirt in 1998.
He received his PhD within the European Doctoral Program from the University of Bonn. From 2003 until 2008, he was Research Associate at IZA, Bonn, from 2008 to 2012 he held a chair at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. Since 2012, he holds a chair of population economics at LMU Munich.