Jutta Allmendinger

Jutta Allmendinger is a sociologist and Professor of Educational Sociology and Labour Market Research at Humboldt University of Berlin. She studied sociology in Mannheim and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and obtained her doctorate from Harvard University in 1989. After a professorship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, she directed the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg from 2003 to 2007 and served as President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center from 2007 to 2024. Her research focuses on social inequality, education, labour markets, gender relations and life-course sociology. Since June 2024, she has chaired the Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony (WKN), an independent advisory body on science, research and higher education policy. Currently, she serves as a member of the German Ethics Council as well as the the German Science and Humanities Council. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Her numerous distinctions include the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, First Class (2013) and the August Bebel Prize (2025).