Dr. Christina Benita Wilke has joined the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) as a Senior Economist in August 2011. Since July 2012, she is the head of the HWWI Office in Bremen. Before, she was managing director and researcher at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA) headed by Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan. She studied business administration and economics at the universities Passau, Lund (Sweden), Mannheim and Hagen. After her studies, she started her research career in the research unit of social policy at MEA. In 2004, she spent four months as a guest researcher at the Universita' Ca' Foscari Di Venezia in Italy. In 2008, she successfully finished her doctoral thesis on German pension policy.