·In 2017, it was announced that Uhlig was named an Honorary Professor at Henan University in China.

·In December 2005, Uhlig received the Frank P. Ramsey Prize for the best paper in “Macroeconomic Dynamics,” for the article “The Sharpe Ratio and Preferences: A Parametric Approach,” with Martin Lettau

Uhlig received his Diplom in mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin in 1985. He went on to earn a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1990. His Ph.D. thesis, titled “Costly Information Acquisition, Stock Prices and Neoclassical Growth”, was supervised by Christopher A. Sims.

Harald Uhlig (born April 26, 1961) is a German economist. He is professor of economics at the University of Chicago since 2007 and was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2009 to 2012. He previously held positions at Princeton University, 1990–1994, Tilburg University, 1994–2000 and Humboldt University of Berlin, 2000–2007. Uhlig won the Gossen Prize in 2003. He was co-editor of Econometrica from 2006 to 2010. He is co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy since 2012.