Prof. Dr. Kai Gehring has been an Associate Professor at SIAW-HSG since August 2026. Before that, he was Professor of Political Economy and Sustainable Development in the Department of Economics at the University of Bern and a member of the Wyss Academy for Nature. He was also affiliated with the ifo Institute in Munich as a Research Professor. Earlier, he worked at the University of Zurich, where he was funded by a four-year Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Prof. Gehring is a member of CESifo, the European Development Network (EUDN), the Development Economics Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, and the research group "Globalization and Development" (GlaD).