| Nationality: | German |
| Current Address: | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| Agricultural and Development Economics Division | |
| Viale delle Terme di Caracalla | |
| 00100 Rome, Italy | |
| Work experience: | |
| Since 4/2003 | Staff member (Economist) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Agricultural Sector in Economic Development Service (ESAE), Rome, Italy, working for the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
| 01/2003 – 3/2003 | Consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Agricultural Sector in Economic Development Service (ESAE), Rome, Italy, working for the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
| 09/2001- 12/2002 | Post-doctoral Fellow in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center CIMMYT Economics Program, Mexico, working for the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
| 08/2000 – 08/2001 | Research assistant and PhD student in Agricultural Economics at the Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany |
| 05/1997 – 07/2000 | Pre-doctoral Fellow in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center CIMMYT Economics Program, Costa Rica, working in the Project: “Accelerating Adoption of Productivity- Enhancing, Resource-Conserving (PERC) Technologies in Maize-based Cropping Systems in Central America” |
| 03/1994 – 04/1994 | Internship at the Land and Water Stewardship Center, Institute of Soil Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
| 11/1993 – 03/1997 | Student research assistant at the Institute for Landscape Planning and Ecology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany |
| Education: | |
| 08/2000-12/2002 | PhD student in Agricultural Economics at the Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany |
| 09/1992 – 04/1993 | Exchange program with the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Environmental Biology Program |
| 10/1990 – 02/1997 | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Agricultural Biology Program, Degree: Dipl.agr.biol. (M.Sc. equivalent) Areas of specialization: Agro-Ecology of the Tropics and Subtropics, Plant Ecology, Eco-Toxicology and Environmental Analytics, Landscape Planning |
| 09/1986 – 10/1989 | Apprenticeship as a bookseller in the University-Bookshop Behrendt, Bonn, Germany |
| 06/1986 | Graduation from the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium, Bonn, Germany |
| Further work related experiences: | |
| 08/1995 | Course of Tropical Ecology of the Insular Pacific Region, University of Salatiga, Java, Indonesia, in cooperation with the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 09/1994 | Field Trip with the University of Hohenheim to Niger and Benin |
| 10/1989 – 06/1990 | Study leave in South and South-East Asia |
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