German professional economists. Public influence According to a poll conducted jointly by the Financial Times Deutschland and the Verein für Socialpolitik (the German economics association) among 550 German economics experts in 2006, "only two representatives of our profession exert an appreciable influence on policymaking: Bert Rürup and Hans-Werner Sinn". A study in 2007 placed Sinn, in terms of number of citations in scientific journals, second to German Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten. The British newspaper The Independent named Sinn among the ten most important people who changed the world in 2011. The German Business weekly WirtschaftsWoche ranked Sinn in 2011 as number 62 among the 100 most powerful people in Germany, and placed him in the No. 1 position among the "Most Important Economists" in the country. In 2012, he was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine. In 2013, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung placed Sinn first on their list of economist with most political influence. According to an inquiry of the German magazine Cicero published in January 2017, Sinn occupies the 4th rang in a list of the most important German intellectuals with respect to their influence on the public dialogue in the past ten years. Affiliations President of the International Institute of Public Finance (2006–2009) European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo (since 2001) North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (since 2001) Bavarian Academy of Sciences, historical-philosophical division (since 1996) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts, Research Associate Member of the Advisory Council of the German Ministry of Economics (since 1989) Awards Karl-Hermann-Flach-Prize, Karl-Hermann-Flach Foundation (April 2022) Honorary Doctorate, University of Lucerne, Lucerne (November 2021) Friedrich-List-Medal in gold, Federal Association of German Business Academics and Economists (bdvb) (2017) Honorary Doctorate, University of Economics, Prague (February 2017) Professor of the year 2015, German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband) Honorary Doctorate, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Juli 2013) Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki (2011) Gustav Stolper Prize of Verein für Socialpolitik (2008) Europe Prize of University of Maastricht (2008) Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2008) The World Economy Annual Lecture, University of Nottingham (2005) German Federal Cross of Merit, first class (2005) CORINE International Book Prize (2004) Tinbergen Lectures, Royal Netherlands Economic Association (2004) Economics Book Prize of the Financial Times Deutschland and getAbstract AG (2003) Honorary Award of the Wirtschaftsbeirates der Union e. V. (2003) Stevenson Lectures on Citizenship, University