Dr. Matthias Bäuml is a research assistant. Prior to his doctorate at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), he completed a Master’s degree in Public Administration/International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, USA. For this, Mr. Bäuml was supported by the McCloy scholarship. Prior to this, Mr. Bäuml received a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Economics Department and at the Harvard Business School. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Visiting Undergraduate Student at Harvard College. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Bäuml completed a Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration and a Bachelor’s degree of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he was accepted into the sponsorship of the German National Academic Foundation.