Hot Seat with Andreas Löschel

Hot Seat with Andreas Löschel

Australian-German Climate & Energy College
Monday, 15 July 2019 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
HOT SEAT (internal only)
Speakers

Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel

Professor Andreas Löschel holds a Chair for Energy and Resource Economics and is director of the Center of Applied Economic Research at the University of Münster, Germany. Since 2011 he has been the chairman of the Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation. He also directs the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia (VISE). Andreas Loeschel is a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report (2010-21) and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He is currently a visiting researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and a co-director of the Australian-German Energy Transition Hub. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) economist ranking he was several times among the 50 most influential economists in Germany. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Mannheim in 2003.

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