Prof. Bengt-Arne Wickström is one of few scholars in Europe who has extensive research and teaching experience in language economics. He has published numerous contributions on evaluation of fairness in language policy and planning as well as language rights and the theory of language dynamics. Before his mandatory retirement in 2013 from the Chair of Public Economics of the School of Business and Economics, he lead a seminar on language economics entitled Ökonomie und Sprache at Humboldt-Universität. In 2011, he was invited speaker at the second doctoral school of the DYLAN project (“Language dynamics and management of diversity”, FP6) in Vienna. After his retirement, he is working on the MIME project as a guest of the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften (Education sciences) and the director of the Humboldt part of the MIME project, professor Jürgen van Buer.