After studying economics and business administration at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Prof. Dr. Leef H. Dierks spent close to a decade in global investment banking at Barclays Capital in Frankfurt and at Morgan Stanley in London before being appointed Professor of Finance and International Capital Markets at the Lübeck University of Technology in the winter semester 2013/14.

In addition to monetary theory and monetary policy, his research focuses in particular on behavioural economics, i.e., the attempt to supplement existing economic models with human behaviour, which is not always rational. In 2022, Prof. Dierks published a widely acclaimed textbook on monetary policy. Also, Prof. Dierks is co-organizer of the annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics.

Prof. Dierks, who was Visiting Scholar at The SEACEN Centre in 2023, has given guest lectures in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Spain and Jordan, among others. Further, Prof. Dierks is liaison officer of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Germany’s largest, oldest and most prestigious scholarship foundation.