Steffen Sirries

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT STEFFEN SIRRIES

I studied business administration at the RWTH Aachen University with a focus on business taxation and auditing, corporate strategies in competition (microeconomics) as well as energy and process engineering. As a PhD student I was employed as a research associate at the Department of Economics, at the chair Empirical Economic Research and Econometrics at the RWTH Aachen University and at the University of Bayreuth. I taught several consecutive courses on empirical methods and quantification in economics. I also gained extensive independent teaching experience as an external lecturer with a specialization on quantitative and empirical methods at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, the FernUniversität in Hagen, and within the accredited masters programs at the Haus der Technik e.V.My dissertation consists of essays on international trade and migration research with a structural and quantitative focus. After obtaining my PhD in economics at the University of Bayreuth in 2016, I joined the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg as a scientific advisor to politics and the public. In 2018 I joined the economic consulting business with a focus on competition economics as a freelance economist and external advisor. I permanently joined the team of L&A in the summer of 2019. Today, I am an equity Partner of L&A and - together with my partners - we unite a strong team of professional economic consultants. I also hold an Adjunct Professorship for Economics at the Kutaisi International University (since 2020). My activities in academia involve ongoing teaching services in different economic fields as well as academic research on competition economics and policy. I always try to bridge the gap between economic cunsulting and academic work on an almost daily basis.I am member of the German association of economists (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), the European Economic Association (EEA), of the Competition Litigation Forum (c-l-f), the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE), and of the Georgian Economic Association. Regularly I attend and contribute to scientific as well as business and policy conferences.