The Dahrendorf Network is a platform for all current and former project affiliates. It strengthens international and intersectoral engagement on European policy matters. Below you will find a list of all network members in alphabetical order.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Andrzej specializes in the European renewable energy and climate policy. In his PhD dissertation he analyzed the implementation of the European renewable energy directives in Poland. A large part of his research was done when working for the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) in Brussels. Andrzej gained practical experience in the area of renewable energy when working for the German Wind Energy Association. Currently, he is teaching the course “European Environmental Policy” at the Berlin subsidiary of the New York University and is working on the notion of the “channels of influence” and their impact on the renewable energy and climate policies of the EU member countries.
Chair Working Group Europe and the World
Helmut Anheier is Dahrendorf Academic Co-Director, President and Dean of the Hertie School, Professor of Sociology. He also holds a chair of Sociology at Heidelberg University and serves as Academic Director of the Centre for Social Investment. From 2001 to 2009 he was Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Helmut Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at the LSE and the Center for Civil Society at UCLA. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is currently researching the nexus between globalisation, civil society and culture and is interested in policy analysis and methodological questions.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Andrzej Blachowicz is the Managing Director of Climate Strategies – a leading international network of academics in the field of applied climate policy. Andrzej has been involved in climate change and energy policy issues since 2001. He served as a Cabinet member and advisor on climate change to the Polish Minister of Environment during the Polish EU Presidency. Andrzej’s previous posts included managing international cooperation at the Polish National Centre for Emission Management (KASHUE-KOBiZE) – a government agency, directing the Brussels office of the Center for Clean Air Policy and developing carbon business at HVB Bank in Germany. Andrzej has been one of the Poland’s lead experts during the negotiations of the EU climate and energy package, as well as in the UNFCCC process. Andrzej is a Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund and a fellow of the US Department of State. He holds a master degree in environmental management from the University of Warsaw and also completed the international courses at the UN University in Tokyo.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
David is a Fellow in Diplomacy and International Strategy at LSE IDEAS and a teaching fellow in the International Relations Department at the LSE. He earned his PhD in Political Sciences and European Studies from Sciences Po in 2012 and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS Johns Hopkins University (2011), at the Prague Institute of International Relations (2010) and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2009). He also had professional experiences at the OSCE Headquarters in Vienna, at the OSCE Mission to Serbia and at the French Embassy to Estonia. His research interests lie with Central Europe, Foreign Policy Analysis, EU policies towards the East (European Neighbourhood Policy and EU-Russia relations) and transatlantic relations.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Marie Julie is the Academic Officer for the Dahrendorf Programme and for the Philippe Roman Chair Anne Applebaum at LSE IDEAS. She is also the Deputy Head of the Cold War Studies Programme. Marie Julie is a member of Dahrendorf Working Group 5 ‘Europe and the World’. She earned her PhD in International History from the LSE in 2012. Supervised by Dr. N. Piers Ludlow and Professor Arne Westad, her doctoral thesis focuses on the origins of the European Community’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China in the 1970s. She is an alumna of the United World College in Hong Kong and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She gained professional experiences at the Boston Consulting Group and the Delegation of the European Commission in Beijing. Her research interests include the history of European integration, the EU’s external relations, in particular the relationship between Europe and China.
Chair Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Felix Creutzig is principal investigator of the Land Use, Infrastructures, and Transport group at the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. His research focuses on low-carbon urban infrastructures, land rent and the challenges of comprehensively assessing large-scale bioenergy. He studied various aspects of climate change mitigation as a postdoctoral researcher in Beijing, Berkeley and Princeton, holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and graduated with a Master of Advanced Studies from the University of Cambridge. His most recent book, Sustainable Low Carbon Transport, complements his contribution to the IPCC as lead author of the upcoming assessment report.
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Blanca is a member of the research group Land Use, Infrastructures and Transport at the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC-Berlin). She holds a Master of Sciences in Sustainable Development, Management and Policy as well as a Bachelor in Environmental Sciences. Her current research focuses on land rent dynamics, transportation and the finances of sustainable infrastructure in urban areas.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Carolyn Fischer is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and Associate Director of its Center for Climate and Electricity Policy. She applies microeconomic theory to a broad range of environmental issues. In the climate and energy policy arena, she has published articles on designing cap-and-trade programs, fuel economy standards, renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency programmes, technology policies and the Clean Development Mechanism. A current focus of her research is the interplay between international trade and climate policy. Carolyn Fischer holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and is also a Fellow of the CESifo research network. She previously served as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors to the President.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Martin is the Representative of Germany to the International Organisations based in Germany, including the Secretariats of the UN convention to combat climate change, UNFCCC, and the UN Convention to Combat desertification, UNCCD. He was E3G’s Programme Leader for Climate Diplomacy from November 2010 to June 2012. Martin has been a German diplomat since 1996. He served as the German representative for human rights and humanitarian affairs at the United Nations General Assembly from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, during the German EU presidency, Martin negotiated on behalf of the European Union key elements of the UN Human Rights Council, including the Universal Periodic Review. He also negotiated resolutions on the Right to Development and on the human rights situation in Darfur. Prior to his work in New York, Martin served as Consul and as Deputy Ambassador in Albania from 1999-2002. From 2002-2005 he was the Cabinet Affairs Advisor to German Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. Between 2007-2010 he was Deputy CEO/Director of the Global Humanitarian Forum, a Geneva based foundation set up by former UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan. From the early days of this foundation Martin formed the content and strategic orientation of the Forum’s work. Martin has a PhD in Law from Regensburg University, and a diploma in International Relations from SciencePo Strasbourg, France. He is a senior fellow at Demos, New York.
Chair Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Conor Gearty is Professor of Human rights law in the LSE Law Department. He was previously the Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He has also been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Richmond, the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. Professor Gearty is also a barrister and was a founding member of Matrix chambers (www.matrixlaw.co.uk) from where he continues to practice. He has been a frequent adviser to judges, practitioners and public authorities on the implications of the UK Human Rights Act, and has frequently lectured at home and abroad on the topic of human rights. He has appeared in human rights cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Frank is Associate Professor in the Urban and Public Affairs Department at the University of Louisville, where he teaches economics and transportation policy. His main research interests concern modeling automobile ownership and mode choice decision making, with a focus on social learning and neighborhood spillovers, and on how transportation behavior impacts fuel consumption, climate change, public policy and politics. Prior to earning his Ph.D. in Economics (West Virginia University, 2006), he worked for many years as a transportation analyst both for a public agency (CTPS, Boston) and in consulting (Cambridge Systematics). He holds an M.A. in Energy and Environmental Studies (Boston University, 1996) and a B.A. in Political Science and Biology (University of Bremen, 1991). In 2008 and 2010/11, Frank had been a visiting researcher in the division “Regions, Environment and Transportation” at the IFO Institute. Currently he is organizing the 2013 International Workshop “Frontiers in Transportation – Social Interactions” to be held this summer in Munich.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Jan Christoph is head of the team “Novel Solar Cell Concepts” at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems ISE. His main research interest is the development of new photovoltaic technologies that surpass the efficiency limits of conventional photovoltaic technologies. Jan Christoph is also working on system aspects of the global transition of the energy systems towards a sustainable future. He contributed to the WBGU 2003 report “World in Transition – Towards Sustainable Energy Systems”, he is co-editor of the book “Energie, Macht, Vernunft” and has been involved in several political advisory boards on this subject. Jan Christoph studied Physics at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, He received a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany. In 2012/2013 he stayed at Imperial College, London, as a visiting academic researcher.
Visiting Fellow Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Anna Grear is the Founder and Director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, Founder and Co-Editor in Chief of the well-respected Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and a legal theorist whose work focuses largely upon questions of the law’s construction of the human being and of the human relationship with the world, broadly conceived. Anna Grear is interested in interrogating ontological and epistemological suppositions informing the construction of legal subjectivity (including corporate legal subjectivity) and relating that analysis to potential legal responses to questions of climate justice.
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Stéphane Hallegatte is senior economist with the World Bank, in the office of the chief economist of the Sustainable Development Network. His work considers green growth and climate change mitigation strategies, urban economics, climate change adaptation and disaster risk management. He is lead author of the IPCC for its fifth assessment report. Stéphane Hallegatte also co-led the World Bank report “Inclusive Green Growth” in 2012, and he is a core team member for the 2014 World Development Report “Managing Risks for Development”. Stéphane Hallegatte holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Member Working Group Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Marcus Hedahl is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE after being a Charlotte Newcombe fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and a Fellow of Environmental Justice at The Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Marcus Hedahls research focuses on the relational and collective aspects of ethics, particularly with respect to considerations of human rights and global justice in the context of climate change. Marcus Hedahl holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a BS in physics from the University of Notre Dame. He is a former research associate at NASA-Langley and a former Major in the US Air Force.
Member Working Group Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Stephen Humphreys is a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the London School of Economics. He was formerly Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy in Geneva and, before that, Senior Publications Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York. He has worked in Senegal on climate change policy and lectured in English literature and theory at ELTE University in Budapest. He has translated poetry and drama from Hungarian and French. His publications include Theatre of the Rule of Law and the edited volume, Human Rights and Climate Change, both with Cambridge UP. He is a member of the International Bar Association’s Task Force on Climate Change Justice.
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Michael is a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His research focuses on climate change mitigation in developing countries, climate policy in a globalized world, and Green Growth. Michael holds a PhD in economics from the Technical University of Berlin and received degrees in Physics, Economics and International Relations in Munich, St. Gallen, and Geneva. He has been a contributing author to the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energies (SRREN) and currently serves as a contributing author for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).
Visiting Fellow Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Frank Jotzo is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Climate Economics & Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. His research is on the economics and policy of climate change, energy economics and policy, as well as on broader issues of development and economic reform. He has advised governments, is a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is a frequent contributor to the public and policy debate in Australia and internationally.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Professor in the Department of Environmental Protection of Warsaw University of Life Science – SGGW. Since 1992, he studies the integration of environmental policy into sector policies, specializes in environmental management and environmental policy. Zbigniew is author of more than 300 publications. In 1998-2002 he was advisor to the Minister of the Environment for European integration. Zbigniew is co-author of Polish negotiating positions in the area of environment; he participated in the negotiations on the conditions of the state aid to businesses. Since 2004 he leads, for the European Commission, the analysis of the environmental impact of Polish accession to the European Union. Since 2008, Zbigniew is member of the Monitoring Team, to support the European Commission in the assessment of the environmental effects of the EU financial instrument LIFE+. Zbigniew is active in non-governmental organizations, he is the current President of the Polish Ecological Club Mazovian Branch and expert of the Polish Climate Coalition. In 1996-2000 he was director of Climate Action Network Central and Eastern Europe. At present, he is an expert of the Polish NGOs Climate Coalition.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Sustainable development policy expert. Granted a master’s degree in geography and doctoral degree in technical sciences. Involved in scientific activities for many years. Lecturer at many Polish and American universities. Initiator and first chairman of the Environmental Impact Assessment Commission at Ministry of Environment. Over the years 1991-1995 and 1999-up to 2010 member of the Environmental and Social Council of the President EBRD. Co-founder and president of the Institute for Sustainable Development and co-founder Polish Energy Efficiency Foundation. Chairperson of The Board of Directors Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. Currently involves in few project with focus on climate change and energy and transport. Winner of several awards, including the Scientific Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Man of the Year 2005 of Polish Ecology. Involved in more than 150 publications, reports & papers.
Chair Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Claudia Kemfert has been Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance since 2009 and Head of the Department of Energy, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004. Her research activities concentrate on the evaluation of climate and energy policy strategies. Claudia advised EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso in a “High Level Group on Energy and Climate”. In 2006 she received the award for top German Scientist from the German Research Foundation, Helmholtz and Leibniz Association. In 2011 she was awarded the Urania Medaille as well as B.A.U.M. environmental award for best science.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Rüdiger heads the chair for “Energy Trading and Financial Services” at the University Duisburg-Essen. Previously he has been Director of the Institute for Mathematical Finance at the University of Ulm. He also held positions as Lecturer and Reader for actuarial science and financial mathematics at Birkbeck College, University of London and London School of Economics, where he is still visiting professor. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Mathematics for Applications, Oslo University. His main research areas are currently risk management for power utility companies, design and analysis of Emission Trading Schemes, valuation and hedging of derivatives (interest-rate, credit- and energy-related), methods of risk transfer and structuring of risk (securitization), and the stochastic modelling of financial markets using Lévy-type processes. He is Co-author of the Springer Finance monograph Risk-Neutral Valuation (now in its second edition) and has written more than fifty published research papers. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and organized several practitioner seminars. Professor Kiesel also consults financial institutions and regulators on (credit- and energy-) risk management, derivative pricing models and asset allocation.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Sascha is a Research Fellow at the Chair for Energy Trading and Finance at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After receiving his Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn, he is now focusing on modelling of price containment mechanisms in carbon markets and their analysis via optimal stochastic control. Sascha’s other research interests include market illiquidity and optimization of numerical methods for finance.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Head of Research Division “EU Integration” at the SWP Berlin, ad interim. Expert in the foreign and security policies of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia; the transformation and consolidation process of the Visegrad countries
Visiting Fellow Working Group Europe and the World
Anne-Marie Le Gloannec is Director of Research at Sciences Po, Paris. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). She was a fellow at the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation (1988-1990), a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (1984 and 2004) and deputy director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin (1997-2002). Anne-Marie Le Gloannec has held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins University (Bologna Center), the University of Paris I, Sciences Po, the IEP of Lille, the Free University of Berlin, and the Viadrina University (Frankfurt-an-der-Oder). She also was visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart (April-July 2007) and at the University of Cologne (2007-2008). Anne-Marie Le Gloannec is author of several books and was a regular contributor to the French newspapers L’Express and Le Figaro. Her forthcoming book is Continent by Default. How the European Union came to organize the continent.
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Steffen Lohrey is a research student in the Land-Use, Infrastructure and Transport group headed Dr. Felix Creutzig. He is researching on growth of urban metabolisms and land use change through urban growth with a special focus on transport infrastructure and long-term path dependencies. His broader scientific interests include systematic climate change mitigation strategies including low-carbon transport systems as well as assessment of uncertainty in climate projections and their pertinence for infrastructure planning. Steffen holds a Diploma in engineering from the University of Stuttgart and has gained scientific experience in the field of atmospheric and climate science at Ecole Polytechnique in France and at the Universities of Munich and Oxford.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Robert is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he co-leads the research group on ‘Policy Instruments’. He is also a lecturer at the department of Economics of Climate Change at the University (TU) of Berlin. Topics addressed in his work include emissions trading, carbon leakage, and post-Kyoto international climate policy. Robert holds a PhD in economics and a MSc in physics
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Santiago is a research fellow in Jean-Charles Rochet’s Chair at the University of Zurich. He is currently working on optimal portfolio structure in the banking industry; debt maturity structure of banks; markets for permits, regulation and technology adoption. On a broader scope, his aim is to analyze these problems from the point of view of a regulating agency, and to study the impact that different policies have on social welfare. Santiago holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and is an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Areas of Expertise: International Relations, Cultural Policy, Diplomacy
Chair Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Karsten Neuhoff leads the Department of Climate Policy at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Previously he was senior research associate at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, leading projects on the future of UK power systems, renewable integration and technology policy and coordinating the research network Climate Strategies European projects on the implementation of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and North-South Climate Cooperation. He holds a Diplom in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Stéphanie is a research fellow at the Hertie School of Governance since September 2011. Her fields of specialization are decision making and transparency in EU institutions, informal politics and political theory. She holds a PhD in Political Science (Sciences Po Paris, 2009) and a Master in History of Philosophy (Sorbonne, 2001). She is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, 1999-2004) and agrégée in philosophy (2002). She has been a research fellow at the European University Institute (Florence), at the Collège de France and at Harvard University.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Claus teaches Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He completed his PhD at the University of Frankfurt and his Habilitation at the University of Konstanz. In Germany, he has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He has worked as fellow and visiting professor at, among others, the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Paolo is associate professor at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia. His main research interests are related to the energy and the environment markets, risk management and to simulation methods, with a particular regard to Markov chain bootstrapping. He has been scientific responsible of national research projects. He serves regularly as peer reviewer for several major scientific journals. He has occasionally acted as scientific consultant for major companies in the energy, food, IT and manufacturing sectors. Paolo holds a PhD in Business, curriculum in Capital Markets and Corporate Finance, from the University of Bergamo.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Cristian is assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia, Italy. His research is focused on environmental markets, risk management, and scenario generation. He has participated to national and local research projects on these topics. Cristian holds a Master of Arts in Mathematics with a Specialization in the Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Ph. D. in Mathematics for the Analysis of the Financial Markets from University of Brescia.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Lidia Puka is a Senior Researcher at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Her analysis focuses on the political and legal aspects of EU energy and climate policy, and relations between national and supranational energy governance. She is currently managing a Polish-Norwegian project on the latter issue. Lidia Puka holds an M.A. in International Relations and an M.A in Law (University of Warsaw) as well as a University of Cambridge Diploma in Introduction to English Law and the Law of the EU (distance learning). She was admitted to the bar of the Legal Advisors in 2013.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Alexander Ruser works as a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance. Prior to that he worked as a Research Fellow with the Global Institutional Development Research Group at the Max Weber Institute of Sociology in Heidelberg. His research activities focus on the fields of comparative political sociology, EU politics, political consulting, social network analysis and environmental sociology. As a consultant for the State Institute for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg, Alexander Ruser has also been responsible for developing teaching materials on EU topics.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
James Rydge joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in May 2009. He works closely with Lord Nicholas Stern collaborating across a wide range of research areas, including green growth, international agreements and energy and climate policy in developed and developing countries. Previously, James Rydge worked at the University of Sydney as Research Fellow and Lecturer in the finance discipline, School of Business. James Rydge has also worked in corporate finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Sydney and in debt markets at the Bank of New York Mellon in London. James Rydge has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Sydney, sponsored by the Australian Stock Exchange. His Ph.D. research specialised in financial markets, with a particular focus on equity market microstructure and regulation. He also holds a Master and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Anna is a specialist and national expert in the climate change negotiations (UNFCCC) working at the National Centre for Emissions Management (KOBiZE) in Warsaw. Involved in the UNFCCC process since 2008, she worked on the EU position on behalf of the Polish Government as well as on more horizontal issues related to political and economic aspects of the UNFCCC negotiations. She is a member of the COP19 Presidency team. Before working for the Polish Government (KOBiZE and the Polish Ministry of the Environment), Anna worked for various institutions (Centre for International Relations – Warsaw, ClientEarth, ECF, Aarhus University) and private companies (E.On), acting as an expert in the field of climate change politics and law, as well as low-carbon development, technology transfer and renewables. She holds an M.Sc. in environmental protection from the Warsaw University, earned in through the Inter-Faculty Studies in Environmental Protection. She also specialized in international environmental law at the Faculty of Law and Administration (Warsaw) and at the School of Law (Aarhus). Anna is currently a Ph.D. student at the Warsaw School of Economics in the Collegium of Socio-Economics.
Member Working Group Europe and the World
Alexander Ruser works as a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance. Nico is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany and Director of the European Center for Sustainability Research at his university. His research interests center on the transformation of modern societies into knowledge societies as well as the societal consequences of climate change. He is one of the co-authors of the Hartwell Paper: A New Directions for Climate Policy. Among his recent book publications are: Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society (Transaction Books, 2004); Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2005), Moral Markets (Paradigm Publishers, 2008), Who owns Knowledge: Knowledge and the Law (with Bernd Weiler, Transaction Books, 2008), Knowledge and Democracy (Transaction Publishers, 2008), Society (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge, 2009), Climate and Society (with Hans von Storch, World Scientific Publishers, 2010), Experts (with Reiner Grundmann, Routledge) and The Power of Scientific Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Cambridge University Press).
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
Tiziana Susca is a postdoctoral fellow in the working group on Land Use, Infrastructures and Transport. Tiziana Suscas research interests include climate change, environmental assessment, urban studies, assessment of urban ecosystem services with a specific interest in broadening Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) application to the evaluation of the environmental and urban policies. In 2012 she was research fellow at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) in Bologna, Italy. Tiziana Susca earned a Ph.D. in Engineering at Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) on March 2011 with an inter disciplinary thesis on LCA focused on the implementation of the LCA methodology to include the effect of variation in urban albedo on climate. During her Ph.D. Tiziana Susca was visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Climate and Systems Research, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City a world-leading institution in climate research. In 2008 Tiziana Susca participated in the course on urban climate at Polytechnic University of Milan. She holds a Master in building engineering from Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Kacper Szulecki is a political scientist and sociologist. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School, and a Guest Researcher at the Department of Climate Policy of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). He holds a doctoral degree in the social sciences from the University of Konstanz (summa cum laude, 2012) and a master’s degree in international relations and transnational environmental governance from the VU University Amsterdam (cum laude, 2008). He studied at the Universities in Warsaw and Oslo and took part in post-graduate seminars at the ETH Zurich, Peace Research Institute in Oslo and the National University – Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Before joining the Hertie School, he was a researcher at the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” in Konstanz, and conducted a research internship at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) in Amsterdam. He is also board director of the Environmental Studies and Policy Research Institute, a research network based in Poland; as well as an editor of the online weekly “Kultura Liberalna”. His research focuses on environmental, energy and climate policy and governance, as well as social movements and dissent
Chair Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Luca Taschini is a Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE working mostly on the theory of market-based mechanisms, energy economics and technology change. His current research aims to understand both theoretically and practically the functioning and design of markets for permits, including questions of price containment mechanisms, participation restrictions, the linkage of markets and the investigation of policy controls able to promote technology deployment. Luca Taschini holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich and is a member of the CESifo Energy and Climate Economics Research Group in Munich and a visiting scholar at the Research Center for Sustainability Science at the Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Alessandro is a Research Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He investigates the drivers of cooperative behaviour in the global commons (such as coordinated investment in climate stabilisation). This is tackled through a combination of non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory models, as well as laboratory experiments, surveys and simulations, in an effort to shed light on the potential solutions to environmental dilemmas. Alessandro holds a PhD in Economics from Universita’ Ca’ Foscari di Venezia and is a member of the Levin Lab at Princeton University, as well as an Associate Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
Member Working Group Economics and Climate Change
Ya joined the chair of energy trading and finance at the University of Duisburg-Essen and began his PhD study since 2011. He is working as a research fellow on the BMBF project “Analytics and Empirics of Emission Trading (AEET)” sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with the research topic “linking schemes”, which focuses on a stochastic model approach to obtain price dynamics for permits in different linking scheme design. His current research aims to study the implied volatility and banking value of permits. Before this Ya graduated from the University of Heidelberg with a diploma in mathematics.
Chair Working Group Europe and the World
Arne Westad is Dahrendorf Academic Co-Director. Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an expert on the Cold War and on contemporary international affairs. He directs LSE Ideas, the LSE’s centre for international affairs, is an editor of the journal Cold War History and co-editor of the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. His book The Global Cold War won the Bancroft Prize for 2006. Born in Norway in 1960, Arne Westad studied at the University of Oslo and did his graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During the 1980s he worked for several international aid agencies in Southern Africa and in Pakistan. He joined LSE in 1998, after serving for six years as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
Member Working Group Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change
Kirsten Westphal is based at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. She is responsible for International Energy Relations and Global Energy Security. Previously, she was Assistant Professor for International Relations at the Department for Political Science at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. She has been a consultant and scholarship holder in the energy industry and has been working in several EU and OSCE missions in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the CIS and Asia. She has published widely on international energy relations and EU external energy relations, most recently Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World (with Dries Lesage and Thijs van de Graaf).
Member Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change Andy is a writer and researcher on land rights and land reform. His books include Who Owns Scotland (1996), Community Land Rights, A Citizen’s Guide (2009) and The Poor Had No Lawyers (2010). A new book on Elite Rule and Radical Democracy is due in 2014. He has a particular interest in the relationship between land & property, governance, politics and finance and runs the www.whoownsscotland.org.uk website and popular blog at www.andywightman.com. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Visiting Fellow Working Group Infrastructure and Climate Change
James is a public health modeller at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge, specialising in transport. He has modelled the health benefits that could be achieved from a transition to more sustainable transport systems, in particular through more walking and cycling. He has developed a simulation model of transport (ITHIM) that is being used in the UK and the US. His work is also now focusing on how we could achieve the transition to a more active, lower carbon system. He is using two complex system modelling approaches; agent based modelling (leading the ESRC funded project “Changing Commutes”) and system dynamics (cycling in London).