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Panel 2 Speaker Claudia Kemfert is Head of the Energy, Transportation and Environment Department of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. back to previous page |
| 1968 | Born in Delmenhorst, Germany |
| 1998 | PhD in Economics, Bielefeld University and Stanford University |
| 1998 | Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan |
| 1999 - 2000 | Head of the Young Academics Group, Institute for Rational Energy Use, University of Stuttgart |
| 2000 - 2004 | Assistant Professor, University of Oldenburg |
| Present Position | |
| 2004 – | Head of Energy, Transportation and Environment Department, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin |
| Professor and Head, Environmental Economics Department, Humboldt University of Berlin | |
| Memberships | |
| Member of the European Union High Level Group on Energy and Climate | |
| External Expert to the World Bank and the United Nations | |
| Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | |
| Member of the Expert Commission of Niedersachsen | |
| Member of the Sustainability Advisory Councils of the Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg Federal States | |
| Scientific Advisor to the Austrian Institute of Economics and the Energy Institute at the University of Linz | |
| Award | |
| “Elf der Wissenschaft” (Top eleven young scientists in Germany) from the German Science Foundation, the Helmholtz Foundation and the Leibniz Foundation, 2006 | |
