I am a development economist. My current scholarly work is on technology, entrepreneurship, economic growth and stagnation: how do we achieve prosperity for all within planetary boundaries, when innovation and entrepreneurship are stagnating? Do Green Growth and Degrowth approaches, perhaps in combination with Artificial Intelligence, offer a way out, or are these all dead-ends? I am affiliated with RWTH Aachen University, Leiden University, University of Johannesburg and the OECD's AI Policy Observatory.


I joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2013.