Professor Dr. Axel Ockenfels was profiled as one of the most influential idea providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the Global Thought Leader Index 2015. The index maps the conversation in the internet and its most influential vote. Different lists determined by the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute and The WorldPost with the collaboration of the MIT-researcher Peter Gloor contain almost 400 contemporary thinkers.

In the German speaking countries Professor Ockenfels is on rank 31. Therefore he is ranked ahead national and international thinkers such as Hans-Werner Sinn, Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Al Gore, Jürgen Habermas, Umberto Eco or Noam Chomsky. Overall, Ockenfels is in prominent company: At the top of the list are Edward Snowden, Pope Franziskus, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and other worldwide popular personalities.

Here you can find the list of the most influential idea providers in German speaking countries.