Philipp Breidenbach

Dr. Philipp Breidenbach is a Deputy Head of FDZ Ruhr & Researcher at RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.
Since 2015 he has been deputy head of the Research Data Center Ruhr at RWI Essen (FDZ Ruhr).
He is also a researcher at the “Macroeconomic and Public Finance” department.
At RWI, he is also responsible for the microsimulation models of taxes, analyzing revenue-, distribution- and burden-effects for different types of taxes.
From 2015 to 2016, he was head of FDZ Ruhr.
Before he took over the position at FDZ Ruhr, he also worked as an Assistant to the Board of Directors at the RWI.
He studied economics at the Ruhr University Bochum, focusing on econometrics, tax, and accounting.