Dr. Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann

Dr. Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann is a research associate at the Ibero-American Institute for Economic Research at the University of Göttingen. She is also a board member of the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) at the University of Göttingen.

She works as coordinator and lecturer for the international master's program ‘MSc in Development Economics’. She studied economics at the University of Regensburg and statistics/econometrics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. In 1990, she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Göttingen and was an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin from 1991 to 1994.

She has served as a consultant to the German Bundestag, the Bertelsmann Foundation, UNDP, GIZ, ministries for international cooperation and development in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as the Centre for Economic Policy Studies (CEPS) and IRELA in Brussels.

Dr. Nowak's research interests include international trade, migration, and applied development economics, in particular the effectiveness of development aid. Her work has been published in international journals such as World Development, Review of World Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Canadian Journal of Economics, The World Economy, Journal of Development Studies, Kyklos, Journal of European Integration, Applied Economics, Applied Economic Analysis, etc.