# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudiger-frank
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:29:30.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudiger-frank"
name: "Rüdiger Frank"
slug: "rudiger-frank"
description: "Rüdiger Frank is a German economist and expert on North Korea and East Asia. He currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria, as a tenured full professor of East Asian economy and society at the University of Vienna. Frank also serves as the head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna and is an adjunct professor at Korea University and at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul."
tagline: "German economist & leading North Korea expert"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R%C3%BCdiger_Frank_(2014).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             0.6122448979591837
  historical:           5.691002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RFrankVienna"
    handle:    "RFrankVienna"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump