| Emmanuel Ametepeh, a political scientist from Ghana and project leader of the Black & White initiative, interviews the German economic politician and economist Heiner Flassbeck about his views on the economic policy that would be needed in Africa in order to eliminate the causes of flight. He is a professor at the University of Hamburg today. After the change of government in October 1998, he was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance (Cabinet Schröder I). He advised the then Federal Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine in his plan, together with the French Minister of Finance Dominique Strauss-Kahn to establish a Keynesian financial and monetary policy at European level and to reform the world monetary system. After Oskar Lafontaine resigned in March 1999 because of irreconcilable differences with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as Federal Finance Minister, Flassbeck was dismissed in April 1999 as Secretary of State by Hans Eichel. From January 2003 to the end of 2012, he worked as a chief economist. (Chief of Macroeconomics and Development) at the UNO World Trade and Development Organization (UNCTAD) in Geneva (https://unctad.org/en/Pages/Home.aspx, https) He is the editor of the online journal alongside Paul Steinhardt Macroscope: https://makroskop.eu/ |
Heiner Flassbeck (born 12 December 1950) is a German economist and public intellectual. From 1998 to 1999 he was a State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Finance (German: Bundesministerium der Finanzen) where he also advised former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine on a reform of the European Monetary System. He became the Chief of Macroeconomics and Development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva in January 2003, a position that he held until resigning at the end of 2012 due to his age.
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