 of Economics, New York University, and the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University.He has served as a member and vice president of the Danish government's National Social Science Research Council and been the representative of Danish social science in the European Science Foundation.Kurrild-Klitgaard is the recipient of the Fyens Stiftstidende's Research Award (2003), and as a graduate student at Columbia University he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Claude R. Lambe Fellow.