Lars-Hendrik Röller is the Founder and Chairman of the Berlin Global Dialogue and a Professor of Economics at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT). He is also director at E.CA economics, an economic consultancy in competition policy, which he co-founded in 2006.
Recently, he has been appointed Chair of the Green Garantee Group (GGG) a global platform for climate finance initiated by the German Government at COP28. Since 2022 he is the economic advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Edi Rama. From 2022-2024 he has been a senior advisor to BlackRock and is on the Advisory Board of the European Decarbonization Partners (EDP), a private equity fund to scale up investment towards climate neutrality, as well as Northstar, a geopolitical consultancy based in London.
From 2011-2021, he was Chief Economic Advisor to Chancellor Merkel. He was also Germany’s Sherpa for G7 and G20 Summits and has organized and prepared 17 summits, including Germany’s G7 presidency in 2015 and G20 presidency in 2017. From 2003-2006 he served as Europe's first Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission, working on merger control, anti-competitive abuses, cartels and state aid.
Previous positions include President of the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin (2006-2011), Professor at Humboldt University Berlin (1995-2011), Professor at INSEAD (France, 1987-1994), and Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Cent