Prof. Dr. Henning Vöpel has been Director of the Centre for European Policy and Professor of Economics at the BSP Business and Law School since October 2021.

Previously, he was Director and CEO of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics HWWI from 2014 to 2021 and Professor of Economics at the Hamburg School of Business and Administration HSBA from 2010 to 2021. After studying economics, he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on the "Stabilisation Effects of Monetary Policy". After working as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg, he founded the consultancy EconView. In 2006, he moved to the HWWI, where, among other things, he participated several times in the so-called Joint Economic Forecast for the Federal Government. In 2009 and 2015, he spent research stays in the USA at the invitation of the U.S. State Department as part of the International Young Leader Program.