Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is a senior fellow at Bruegel and a nonresident senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He was a Brussels-based senior fellow at GMF from 2020 to 2024. For seven years prior to that, he was a Washington, DC-based senior fellow at PIIE. He has also worked with the Danish defense ministry and the United Nations in Iraq, and in the financial sector.
Kirkegaard is a graduate of the Danish Army's Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant, the University of Aarhus, and Columbia University. He received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is co-editor of “Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity”, author of “The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy”, and co-author of “US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries” and “Transforming the European Economy”. He assisted with “Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology”. His current research focuses on European economies and reform, transatlantic economic transition, immigration, labor markets, foreign direct investment trends and estimations, the global demographic transformation, and the impact of information technology.