Sebastian Ottinger is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Economic History at Northwestern University and will join CERGE-EI in Prague as an Assistant Professor in September 2022. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management in June 2021 and his BA and MA from the University of Zurich.

His research in political economy and urban economics draws on American and European economic history.

Sebastian Ottinger joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in October 2021.