Lars P. Feld has been chair of Economic Policy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg since 2010 and is the current director of the Walter Eucken Institute. After his studies in economics at the University of Saarland (Germany), Feld graduated from University of St. Gallen in 1999 and qualified for a professorship in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a professor of economics, with a focus on public economics, at the Philipps University of Marburg, and from 2006 to 2010 at Heidelberg University.

He is a member of Leopoldina (the German National Academy of Sciences), the Kronberger Kreis (the scientific council of the think tank Stiftung Marktwirtschaft), and the Mont Pelerin Society. From 2007 to 2009, he was president of the European Public Choice Society.

Feld has been, since 2003, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany, and, since 2011, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE). He currently represents the GCEE in the Independent Advisory Council of the Stability Council. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne in Switzerland.

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