Matthias Zeeb

Matthias Zeeb is an economist with a long-running professional interest in social protection and pension reform in particular in transition and developing countries. More recently he has been working on issues of societal resilience to systemic risks of economic, ecological or social origin.

His expertise includes management of international consultancy projects, pension system analysis including policy and institutional issues, the assessment of macroeconomic implications of reforms (especially on capital and labour markets), and the design and application of actuarial computer simulation models for the analysis of pension and other social security systems. He has extensive experience in developing and modelling pension reform options and evaluating their likely social, financial and economic impacts to provide decision makers with sound policy advice.

In 2010, Matthias was part of a team working with the Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions and Benefits Fund on developing policy options to secure the Fund's long-term financial sustainability. In 2008/09, he worked with the Indonesian Ministry of Planning on the introduction of a comprehensive national social security system. In 2009, he acted as interim co-ordinator of GTZ's sector initiative on social protection systems. In 1998 to 2004, he worked regularly on Russian pension issues related to the supervision of private pension funds, the reform of the state pension system and in consultancy to corporate pension funds. Other examples of Matthias' international assignments include an analysis and policy advice on old-age provision for the informal sector in India, the modelling of parametric reforms to the state pension system in Estonia, the development of reform options for early retirement pensions in the Russian Federation, an organisational review of the Pension Insurance Funds in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the design of a simulation model for a potential new entrant to the Polish mandatory private pension market and pension modelling training workshops in Moldova.

More recently he has authored research and discussion papers on social security issues for GTZ and jointly with the Pestel Institute for Systems Research developed an indicator-based resilience index of Germany's administrative districts.