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Curriculum vitae

 

 

  • Date of birth: 08.07.61 in Gangkofen, Lower Bavaria

  • CV can be downloaded as pdf here:
  • Familiy status: married, 2 children

  • full version (76 pages)
  • Citizenship: German

  • short version (4 pages)
  • Languages: German, English


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    Education

  • 1987
  • Diplomvolkswirt, University of Munich
  • 1991
  • B.A. Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich

     

    Professional Experience

  • 1981-1987
  • Founding of a private enterprise; several occupations in the Public Health System
  • 1987-1994
  • Member of the Jesuit Order
  • 1991-1993
  • Chief of a Humanitarian Aid Organization (Jesuit Refugee Service) in Croatia and Bosnia
  • 1993-1994
  • Journalist
  • 1994-2000
  • Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt
  • 1999
  • Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude), Social Conflict and Technological Change. Evolutionary Models of Energy Use.
  • 2000-2005
  • Deputy of the Head of Department of Global Change and Social Systems
  • 2003-2007
  • Leads together with Hermann Held the Project 'Ocean Sequestration and the Transformation of the Global Energy System' funded by the Volkswagenstiftung
  • 2003-2007
  • Leader of the Project SPARK
  • since 2007
  • Head of Research Domain III - "Sustainable Solutions" at PIK
  • 2004 - 2008
  • Lead-Author of the IPCC, Chapter 1 and 11; the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007
  • 2004-2006
  • Chief Scientist in IMCP (Innovative Modelling Comparison Exercise)
  • since 2005
  • Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • 2006
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Energy Journal: O. Edenhofer, C. Carraro, J. Koehler, M. Grubb: Endogenous Technological Change and the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. The Energy Journal.
  • 2006-2009
  • Leader of the Mitigation Part of the ADAM Project together with Professor Eberhard Jochem
  • 2006
  • Organiser of the International Conference "Low Stabilisation Scenarios - Costs, Technologies and Strategies", 16/17 March in Potsdam in cooperation with FEEM
  • 2007
  • Member of the German Delegation in Bangkok, IPCC, WG lll
  • since 2007
  • Key Climate Change Advisor to the Federal Foreign Office
  • since 2007
  • Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • 2007
  • Appointment as president of the Wuppertal Institute together with a professorship for Environmental Economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal; appointment turned down
  • since 2008
  • Professor for "Economics of Climate Change" at the Technical University Berlin, Member of Faculty VI and VII
  • since 2008
  • Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC; the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007

     

    Scientific Honourations

  • August 2005
  • Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst
  • since 2007
  • Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg
  • since 2008
  • Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie
  • since 2008
  • Member of the IAEE
  • since 2009
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ifo-Institute Munich
  • since 2009
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EUREF-Institut Berlin
  • since 2010
  • Member of the group "Climate, Energy & Environment" of the National Academy of the Sciences Leopoldina