Kerstin Schneider, Chair of Finance and Taxation at the University of Wuppertal, has been a member of RWI's extended Executive Board since February 2024. She completed her Master's degree in Economics at the University of Georgia in the USA in 1990 and received her Ph.D. in Economics there in 1993. From 1994 to 2000, Kerstin Schneider worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Finance of Prof Dr Wolfram F. Richter at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Dortmund. In 2001, she completed her habilitation at the University of Dortmund. From 2001 to 2004 she worked as an academic counsellor at the Chair of Public Finance at the University of Dortmund and from 2003 to 2004 as a substitute for the Chair of Finance and Taxation at the Department of Economics at the University of Wuppertal. Kerstin Schneider's research focusses in particular on the economics of education. At RWI, she drives the strategic development of the institute and contributes primarily to improving the institute's profile in the fields of economics of education and economic education.