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Introductory Debate Ottmar Edenhofer is Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research back to previous page |
| 1961 | Year of Birth |
| 1987 | Master’s Degree in Economics, University of Munich (with distinction) |
| 1991 | BA in Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich (summa cum laude) |
| 1999 | PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) |
| 1981 - 1987 | Founding and running a private enterprise; several positions in the Public Health System |
| 1991 - 1993 | Chief of the Humanitarian Aid Organisation Jesuit Refugee Service in Croatia and Bosnia |
| 1987 - 1994 | Member of the Jesuit Order |
| 2000 - 2005 | Deputy Head of the Global Change and Social Systems Department, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) |
| 2006 | Head, Mitigation Part of the EU ADAM Project, together with Professor Eberhard Jochem |
| 2007 | Member of the German Delegation to Bangkok, IPCC, WG III |
| Present Positions | |
| 2003 – | Leads, together with Herman Held, the Ocean Sequestration and the
Transformation of the Global Energy System Project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the SPARK Project at PIK |
| 2004 – | Chief Scientist in IMCP (Innovation Modelling Comparison Exercise) |
| 2005 – | Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) |
| 2005 – | Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst |
| 2007 – | Deputy-Director, PIK |
| 2008 – | Professor, Chair of Economics of Climate Change, Technical University of Berlin |
| Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC | |
