Till van Treeck is professor of social economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also a senior research fellow at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in Duesseldorf, Germany. Till obtained degrees in economics and political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille, France, the University of Muenster, Germany, and Leeds University Business School, UK. Till is managing academic director of the Research Institute for Science-Based Societal Development (FWGW) in Duesseldof, Germany. Besides, he is a member of the organizing committee of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) and managing co-editor of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies (EJEEP). His research interests include income distribution from a macroeconomic perspective, European and German economic policy, and economics education. His work on inequality as a cause of macroeconomic instability was funded by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).