Holger Gorg是国际经济的教授s at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He is also a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at Nottingham, and an Associated Researcher at the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms at Aarhus University. Before joining Kiel he held appointments at Nottingham University, the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and University College Cork. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics in 1999 at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. In 2009 he received the Gossen Award from the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).

他的主要研究兴趣是应用国际贸易问题，特别是与外国直接投资，国际外包，贸易和劳动力市场有关。他在国际期刊上发表了许多论文，包括《经济杂志》，《欧洲经济评论》，《国际经济学杂志》，《经济学和统计评论》，加拿大经济学杂志和斯堪的纳维亚经济学杂志。

他于2002年9月加入IZA作为研究员。