Dr Silvia Stiller is research director and head of the research area "Regional Economics and Urban Development" at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).

Silvia Stiller studied economics in Münster and Kiel. Her Ph.D. thesis at the Technical University of Dresden dealt with the economic impact of demographic change. From 1998 on she has been engaged in economic research in Hamburg. Before joining the HWWI she was head of the research department European Integration and Regional Development at the Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA). Silvia Stiller is a member of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL).