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Professor Dr Johannes Stephan

Schlossplatz 1
Room 1.110
DE-09599 Freiberg

+49 3731 39-3159
Johannes [dot] Stephan [at] vwl [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de (Johannes[dot]Stephan[at]vwl[dot]tu-freiberg[dot]de)

ORCID: 0000-0003-3619-2537
Scopus ID: 25225968000

Committee work and institutional responsibilities

Dean of study programme "MBA International Business and Resources in Emerging Markets" (since 2013)
Member of the Rectorate Commission on Education (since 2010)
Member of the Faculty Council (since 2019)
Chair of the Examination Board of the Faculty's business and economics degree programmes (since 2013)
Board member of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the University (since 2024)

Johannes Stephan has been a professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg since 2013. His research primarily focuses on the conditions for economic development, with a particular emphasis on systemic transformation, monetary macroeconomics, the role of foreign direct investment in technology transfer and spillovers, and the role of natural resources. Since 2026, he serves as a visiting professor at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, and teaches in study programmes at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and at the Université Paris-Est Créteil (until 2024). Since 2013, he has been the Academic Dean for the MBA program "International Business in Emerging and Developing Markets" (later renamed "International Business and Resources in Emerging Markets"). He has been a member of the Rectorate’s Commission on Education since 2010, chair of the examination board for the faculty’s economics and business degree programs since 2019, and an elected member of the Faculty Council since 2020. As of 2024, he serves as a board member of the university’s association of friends and sponsors.

Before his time in Freiberg, he worked as an empirical researcher at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). In 2005, he took over as head of the institute’s Industrial Economics research department, where he successfully secured several externally funded projects under European Union framework programs. He began his academic career at this same institute in 1998. He studied economics at the Free University of Berlin from 1988 to 1994 and earned his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 1997. Johannes Stephan grew up in Tokyo, Herrsching am Ammersee, and Helsinki; in his youth, he was an avid windsurfer and sailor. Today, outside of his professional work, he primarily enjoys spending time with his family.

Curriculum vitae
List of publications