Supporting research on Latin America and developing countries in Göttingen
Ibero-America Institute Foundation Dr. Weiershäuser established
"I would like to say thank you for the generous scholarship that enabled me to do my PhD and research in Mexico at the time, and now give something back to the Ibero-America Institute in return. Basically, I just want to pay back my scholarship that I received five decades ago, including the average long-term interest rate. This is 250,000 euros," says Dr. Eberhard Weiershäuser. The funds are managed by a newly established foundation, the Ibero-Amerika Institut Stiftung Dr. Weiershäuser.
f.l.t.r.: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Dr. Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann, Prof. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Ph.D., Dr. Stephanie Kenedi, Dr. Eberhard Weiershäuser, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann, Prof. Marcela Ibañez Diaz, Ph.D. and Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff
The purpose of the foundation is to promote science and research, especially economic research on Latin America and developing countries at the University of Göttingen, and to promote education. In addition, it is also established in memory of Prof. Dr. Erich Egner, the founding director of the Ibero-America Institute (1964-1969), as well as Prof. Dr. h.c. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D., the long-time director of the Institute (2003-2020) who sadly passed away last year. The annual distributions are intended in particular to support the work and further development of the Department of Ibero-America Research and the "Göttingen School" of development economics.
The Faculty of Business and Economics would like to thank Dr. Weiershäuser for his extraordinary commitment and his many years of dedication to Latin American and developing country research in Göttingen. His daughter, Dr. Stephanie Kenedi, will serve on the board of the new foundation. On November 3, 2021, the founding meeting took place in Göttingen with Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, and the coordinator of "Ibero", Dr. Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann. In addition, Eberhard Weiershäuser and Stephanie Kenedi were welcomed by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann, and the Alumni Representative of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, as well as by the holder of the Chair of Development Economics, Prof. Marcela Ibañez Diaz.
Dr. Eberhard Weiershäuser was among the first doctoral students at the Ibero-America Institute of the Faculty of Business and Economics, founded three years earlier, in 1967. His research was in the field of capital market theory and development in developing and emerging economies, especially Mexico. After his time at the Institute, Dr. Weiershäuser began his professional career in the private sector.
For more information on the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research, see here.