Nationality Germany Name Claudia Kemfert | Role Economic expert | |
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Born December 17, 1968 (age 55) ( 1968-12-17 ) Books Costs of Inaction and Costs of Action in Climate Protection: Assessment of Costs of Inaction Or Delayed Action of Climate Protection and Climate Change ; Final Report ; Project FKZ 904 41 362 for the Federal Ministry for the Environment Fields Energy development, Environmental protection | ||
Eco11 diw claudia kemfert energy economics
Claudia Kemfert (born 17 December 1968 in Delmenhorst, Germany) is a German economics expert in the areas of energy research and environmental protection. She is a Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She heads the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
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- Eco11 diw claudia kemfert energy economics
- Claudia kemfert head of energy transportation and environment at the diw
- Biography
- Other activities
- Awards
- Selected publications
- References
Claudia kemfert head of energy transportation and environment at the diw
Biography
Kemfert has led the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004. From 2004 until 2009 she was Professor for environmental economics at the Humboldt University Berlin. Kemfert studied economics at the Bielefeld University, the University of Oldenburg, where she graduated in 1998. She had a post-doctoral research visit at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan in 1998.
From January 1999 to April 2000, she led a research group at the Institute for Rational Application of Energies of the University of Stuttgart. As a guest professor she taught at the University of St. Petersburg (2003–2004), University of Moscow (2000–2001) and University of Siena (1998, 2002–2003). From 2000 to 2004 Kemfert had a position as an assistant professor and was the leader of a research group at the University of Oldenburg.
Other activities
In 2016, Kemfert was appointed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. She also advised President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso in a High level Group on Energy and Climate, and she acts as an external expert for the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). Kemfert was member of the High Level Expert Group of the EU Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability and of the Advisory Group on Energy of the European Commission (DG Research). She furthermore acts as jury member for several significant sustainability prices.
Kemfert was appointed as shadow minister for energy policy in North Rhine-Westphalia (for CDU) in 2012 and as energy expert in Hesse in 2013 (for SPD).
In addition, Kemfert holds a variety of positions, including the following:
Awards
Kemfert got an award from DAAD and was honoured in 2006 as top German Scientist from the German research foundation, Helmholtz and Leibniz Association ("Elf der Wissenschaft"). In 2011 she was awarded with the Urania Medaille as well as B.A.U.M. Environmental Award for Best Science and got the German-Solar-Award and the Adam-Smith-Award for Market-Based Environmental Policy in 2016.