Claudia Kemfert
| Claudia Kemfert | |
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Claudia Kemfert in 2011
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| Born |
17 December 1968 Delmenhorst, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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| Alma mater |
University of Oldenburg Bielefeld University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Wolfgang Pfaffenberger |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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).
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 economic science 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.
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. Claudia Kemfert advised EU president 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). Claudia 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). Since 2011 she has been a member of the Club of Rome. She furthermore acts as jury member for several significant sustainability prices. She was appointed as shadow minister for Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia (for CDU) in 2012 and as energy expert in Hesse in 2013 (for SPD).
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