PhD Committee
Doctoral Committee for the Award of the Doctor oeconomiae publicae (Dr. oec. publ.) of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
Chair of the doctoral committee
Vice Chair
- For business administration:
- Prof. Dr. Martin Spann
- For the statisticians:
- Prof. Stefan Mittnik, Ph.D.
PhD Consulting business administration and statistics
- Secretariat of the Doctoral Committee
- Oliver Mocker
28 Ludwig Street VG/
Ground floor in room 04 - Email:
- dekanat@som.lmu.de
- Phone:
- +49 89 2180-2228
- Fax:
- +49 89 2180 99 2228
- Office hours:
- Tuesday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
and by arrangement - Postal address:
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Doctoral Committee Dr. oec. publ.
1 Geschwister-Scholl-Square
80539 Munich
PhD consulting economics
- Geschäftsstelle Promotionsausschuss VWL:
- Sabine Rospleszcz (M.A.)
Ludwigstraße 28 RG/ EG, Zimmer 19 - Telefon:
- +49 89 2180- 5629
- E-Mail:
- promotionsausschuss@econ.lmu.de
- Sprechstunden:
- by arrangement
- Postanschrift:
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Promotionsausschuss Dr. oec. publ.
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Further informations
PhD deadlines for the winter semester 2026/2027
Submission of the dissertation with documents: September 14 to 18, 2026
Preparation of the first report: by November 13, 2026
Preparation of the second opinion: by December 25, 2026
Circulation to the oral examiners and display: Dec. 28 to Jan. 08, 2027
Oral examinations (economics only): January 11 to 22, 2027
Final doctoral consultation: Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 1:30 p.m.
- Submission of dissertation with supporting documents
- Preparation of initial assessment
- Preparation of the second review
- Circulation among the oral examiners and display
- Oral examinations (economics only)
- March 2 to 6, 2026
- until April 24, 2026
- until June 5, 2026
- June 8 to 19, 2026
- June 22 to July 3, 2026
A special permit for doctoral studies is required if the university degree is “foreign” or from abroad (roughly speaking: everything except M.Sc. in business administration or economics). It must be submitted by the time the dissertation is submitted at the latest.
The doctoral committee decides on the applications at its meetings at least once every semester (see “Doctoral deadlines”).
The submission deadline for complete applications (incl. copy of certificates and CV) is two weeks before the committee meeting/Promotionsabschlussberatung at the latest.
Please submit original applications for business studies (BWL) directly to the secretariat of the doctoral committee, Ludwigstr. 28 VG/EG, room 04.
(BWL): Application for special permission to do a doctorate (DOCX, 12 KB)
Please submit original applications for economics (VWL) to the office of the doctoral committee for economics, Ludwigstraße 28 RG/ EG, room 19.
(VWL): Application for special permission to do a doctorate (DOCX, 14 KB)
Please note that the use of the university logo of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität is not permitted in the deposit copies to be submitted to the Dissertation Office of the University Library.
Here you will find the definitions of the various roles at LMU Munich School of Management.