Kai A. Konrad (b. 1961) is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. He was a Full Professor of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin (1994-2009) and concurrently a Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2001-2009). He has honorary professorships at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has several editorial positions for scholarly journals and was Co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics (2007-2018). He is member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of several other science academies. He is a member of the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Finance and was the chairperson of this Council from 2011-2014.