Martin Hellwig is a distinguished German economist and Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. An authority on financial regulation and systemic risk, he earned his Ph.D. from MIT and has held faculty positions at Princeton and the University of Basel. Hellwig is best known for his influential work on banking reform and co-authoring “The Bankers’ New Clothes,” where he offers critical insights into the vulnerabilities of the global financial system.
