Prof. Dr. Christina Boll

After training as an industrial clerk, Christina Boll studied economics from 1989 to 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, where she also completed her doctorate in 2010. After receiving her degree in economics in 1995, she first worked as an advisor at the German Savings Bank Association (Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband) and then at the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 2008 to 2019, she headed the research area “Labour, Education and Demography” at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, where she was also Research Director from 2013 to 2019.

Since 2019, Christina Boll has headed the “Family and Family Policy” department at the German Youth Institute in Munich. In 2022, she completed her Habilitation in Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU). From 2001-2025 she was a lecturer in economics, business and sociology at private and state universities in Germany, and from 2022-2025 she was a private lecturer at LMU. Since 2017, she has been a visiting professor of economics at the Federal Labour Agency’s School of Economics, and since 2026 Professor of Labor Market and Family Sociology at LMU.

Her research focuses on microeconomics and sociology in the areas of labour market and family.