Tom Bauler holds the chair “Environnement & Economie” at the “Centre d’Etudes du Développement Durable” of the “Université Libre de Bruxelles”. He holds a degree in economics from the Université Louis Pasteur (Straßburg, France) and a Msc in sociology of sciences (STS – Science, Technology and Society) from the Ecole Polytéchnique fédérale Lausanne (Switzerland). His PhD discussed the usability of sustainable development indicators for policy-making (Univerité Libre de Bruxelles). Tom Bauler’s ongoing research interests are situated in the interlinkages between environmental policies and the economy, and focus on problems of governance and institutionalisation of policy tools and instruments. He is involved in several research projects at various institutional levels. Among these are a series of FP7-EU projects such as “Civil society engagement with ecological economics” (CEECEC), “Policy Influence of Indicators” (POINT) and “Individuals in context: Supportive environments for sustainable living” (INCONTEXT). National Belgian projects include “Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Social Justice in Europe” (CCMPsj) for the King Baudouin Foundation.
Roberto Guimaraes is a former UN Staff Member (from 1983 until 2007), and his latest function was Chief of the Social Analysis and Policy Section of the UN Social Perspectives on Development Branch (2003-2004). He has been a key player in international summits and is well into the international development scene. He is author of close to 200 publications on political development and the formulation of social and environmental politics in Latin America, where he worked for the UN Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and also for the Brazilian Government. One of his outstanding publications is ‘The Ecopolitics of Development in the Third World’ (Lynne Rienner Publ., 1991 and 1994). Professor Guimaraes is now lecturer at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, where he coordinates its MBA in Environmental Management, and visiting professor at the Doctoral Program in Environment and Society of the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo.
Klaus Jacob is research director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the Freie Universität Berlin and has been a senior research fellow at FFU since 1995. He holds a diploma in political science and obtained his doctorate from the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1998 with a thesis on innovation effects in chemicals policy. He was chairman of the Environmental and Global Change Committee of the German Association of Political Science, is chair of the steering committee of the Berlin Conference series on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Klaus Jacob manages research projects at the FFU and has been working as a project manager in a number of international and national projects since 1995. He is active in both research as well as policy consultancy. His key research areas are institutional analysis, innovation theories and methodologies of policy analysis, integration of environmental concerns into other sectoral policies, tools and methods for policy assessment, measuring and modelling national capacities for innovation-friendly environmental policies.
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). His research interests focus on understanding the social, psychological and structural dimensions of sustainable living. Tim joined the University of Surrey in January 1995 under an EPSRC Fellowship on energy and environment, after five years as Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute. In February 2000, he was appointed Professor of Sustainable Development, the first such chair to be created in the UK. In April 2004, Tim Jackson was appointed as Economics Commissioner to the UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC). In addition to his academic and policy work, Tim Jackson is an award-winning playwright with numerous BBC radio credits to his name. His environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998. His most recent play, Variations, won the 2007 Grand Prix Marulic and was longlisted for the 2008 Sony Drama award.
Martin Jänicke studied sociology, political science, economics and history at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was appointed professor of comparative analysis at the Freie Universität in 1971. Martin Jänicke > is the founding director of the “Environmental Policy > Research Centre” (FFU) from 1986 to 2007. He was consultant to the German chancellors office in 1974-76 and member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1981-83. In 1999, he was appointed a member of German Advisory Council on the Environment. Martin Jänicke is one of the leading German voices for ecological innovation policies and green transformation processes. Moreover, he is part of the “IPCC member team” and working on the 5th Assessment Report for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to be published between 2013 and 2014.
Helge Jörgens is managing director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the Freie Universität Berlin. From November 2008 to April 2010, he was Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Public Policy and Administration at the Universität Konstanz. His PhD thesis dealt with the cross-national diffusion of environmental policy innovations. Helge Jörgens conducts the Research Project “Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling?”. Until October 2008, he was Research Fellow at the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) and member of the Editorial Board of the journal European Environment.
Bernd Ladwig is lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. His ongoing research interests and activities focus on modern political theory, theories of justice and good governance as well as on human and animal rights. Bernd Ladwig is currently working on a monograph on “human rights and animal rights” and on a book on theories of justice. He is team leader of the research project “Normative Standards of Good Governance for Failing States”. Furthermore, Bernd Ladwig teaches various courses and recently received an award for excellent teaching at the Faculty of Political Science of the Freie Universität Berlin.
Philipp Pattberg is a senior researcher and project leader at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam. He is also the deputy-director and research coordinator of the international Global Governance Project , a joint research programme of leading European universities, and Management Committee Chair of the European COST Action The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance. His current research focuses on the concept of transnational organisation, the overall architecture of global governance, the effectiveness and accountability of global public policy partnerships and the future of the global climate regime. Pattberg has recently been awarded the 2009 Science Prize of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).
Miranda Schreurs is the director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to this she was Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Schreurs’ work focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the US, and East Asia. She was born and raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and Germany and briefly in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Michigan and her MA and BA from the University of Washington. She has also spent time researching or teaching at Harvard University, Utrecht University, the Freie Universität Berlin, Keio University, Chuo University, and Rikkyo University and has held fellowships from the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In July 2008 Miranda Schreurs was appointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment.
Karlheinz Steinmüller is scientific director and founding partner of “Z_punkt GmbH – The Foresight Company” in Cologne and Berlin (www.z-punkt.de). As project manager he is engaged in futures studies for large, mostly German, enterprises and public administrations (European Commission, ministries etc.). His special fields of expertise include innovations in companies and society, technological foresight and technology assessment, scenario development and wild cards. Karlheinz Steinmüller has published several books on futures studies and many research reports. Steinmüller is collaborating with the Collège Européen de Prospective Territoriale and the committee on foresight methodology of the Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung. He is member of the Advisory Board of the 2bahead-Zukunftskonferenz. Recently, he has been appointed to the EU Expert Group “Global Europe 2030/2050″.
Andreas Thiel holds a M.Sc. in Economics and in European Environmental and Spatial Planning. His PhD thesis dealt with questions of Environmental Policy Integration. He won the “Barton Willmore Price” for the best dissertation in 2000. Andreas Thiel’s ongoing research interests and activities focus on re-scaling of resource governance in Europe in the context of the European Water Framework and Marine Strategy Framework Directives. His conceptual research interests are the “Social Sciences of Resources and the Environment” with a specific focus on the role of institutions and economics for social-ecological interactions and development. Previous substantive work focused on Europeanization and coastal development (water, tourism, agricultural, biodiversity and landscape politics and development) and transboundary water sharing, and on European governance and IA procedures of the European Union.
Link: http://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/struktur/institute/wisola/fg/ress/mitarbeiter/thiel
Dr. Helmut Weidner
Helmut Weidner is political scientist and senior researcher of the research unit “Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and private lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He holds a degree in political science and sociology and is a specialist for environmental policy, capacity building and new instruments of conflict resolution. He currently conducts a research project that deals with questions on Climate Change Policy, Equity and Global Justice in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Link: http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/tki/people/weidner.en.htm
Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU)
Freie Universität Berlin
European Union Marie Curie Action
Earth System Governance Project
Faculty
Dr. Tom Bauler
Tom Bauler holds the chair “Environnement & Economie” at the “Centre d’Etudes du Développement Durable” of the
“Université Libre de Bruxelles”. He holds a degree in economics from the Université Louis Pasteur (Straßburg, France) and a Msc in sociology of sciences (STS – Science, Technology and Society) from the Ecole Polytéchnique fédérale Lausanne (Switzerland). His PhD discussed the usability of sustainable development indicators for policy-making (Univerité Libre de Bruxelles). Tom Bauler’s ongoing research interests are situated in the interlinkages between environmental policies and the economy, and focus on problems of governance and institutionalisation of policy tools and instruments. He is involved in several research projects at various institutional levels. Among these are a series of FP7-EU projects such as “Civil society engagement with ecological economics” (CEECEC), “Policy Influence of Indicators” (POINT) and “Individuals in context: Supportive environments for sustainable living” (INCONTEXT). National Belgian projects include “Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Social Justice in Europe” (CCMPsj) for the King Baudouin Foundation.
Link: http://igeat.ulb.ac.be/fr/equipe/details/person/tom-bauler/
Prof. Roberto Guimaraes
Link: http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/article/SC_Dr._Roberto_P._Guimaraes
Dr. Klaus Jacob
Klaus Jacob is research director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the Freie Universität Berlin and has been a senior research fellow at FFU since 1995. He holds a diploma in political science and obtained his doctorate from the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1998 with a thesis on innovation effects in chemicals policy. He was chairman of the Environmental and Global Change Committee of the German Association of Political Science, is chair of the steering committee of the Berlin Conference series on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Klaus Jacob manages research projects at the FFU and has been working as a project manager in a number of international and national projects since 1995. He is active in both research as well as policy consultancy. His key research areas are institutional analysis, innovation theories and methodologies of policy analysis, integration of environmental concerns into other sectoral policies, tools and methods for policy assessment, measuring and modelling national capacities for innovation-friendly environmental policies.
Link: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/team/mitarbeiter/jacob_klaus/index.html/
Prof. Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). His research interests focus on understanding the social, psychological and structural dimensions of sustainable living. Tim joined the University of Surrey in January 1995 under an EPSRC Fellowship on energy and environment, after five years as Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute. In February 2000, he was appointed Professor of Sustainable Development, the first such chair to be created in the UK. In April 2004, Tim Jackson was appointed as Economics Commissioner to the UK Sustainable Development Commission (SDC). In addition to his academic and policy work, Tim Jackson is an award-winning playwright with numerous BBC radio credits to his name. His environmental drama The Cry of the Bittern won a Public Awareness of Science Drama Award in 1998. His most recent play, Variations, won the 2007 Grand Prix Marulic and was longlisted for the 2008 Sony Drama award.
Link: http://www.ces-surrey.org.uk/people/staff/tjackson.shtml
Prof. Dr. Martin Jänicke
Martin Jänicke studied sociology, political science, economics and history at the Freie Universität Berlin. He was appointed professor of comparative analysis at the Freie Universität in 1971. Martin Jänicke > is the founding director of the “Environmental Policy > Research Centre” (FFU) from 1986 to 2007. He was consultant to the German chancellors office in 1974-76 and member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1981-83. In 1999, he was appointed a member of German Advisory Council on the Environment. Martin Jänicke is one of the leading German voices for ecological innovation policies and green transformation processes. Moreover, he is part of the “IPCC member team” and working on the 5th Assessment Report for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to be published between 2013 and 2014.
Link: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/team/mitarbeiter/jaenicke_martin/index.html/
Dr. Helge Jörgens
Helge Jörgens is managing director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at the Freie Universität Berlin. From November 2008 to April 2010, he was Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Public Policy and Administration at the Universität Konstanz. His PhD thesis dealt with the cross-national diffusion of environmental policy innovations. Helge Jörgens conducts the Research Project “Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling?”. Until October 2008, he was Research Fellow at the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) and member of the Editorial Board of the journal European Environment.
Link: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/team/mitarbeiter/03_joergens_helge/index.html
Prof. Dr. Bernd Ladwig
Bernd Ladwig is lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. His ongoing research interests and activities focus on modern political theory, theories of justice and good governance as well as on human and animal rights. Bernd Ladwig is currently working on a monograph on “human rights and animal rights” and on a book on theories of justice. He is team leader of the research project “Normative Standards of Good Governance for Failing States”. Furthermore, Bernd Ladwig teaches various courses and recently received an award for excellent teaching at the Faculty of Political Science of the Freie Universität Berlin.
Link: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ladwig/
Dr. Philipp Pattberg
Philipp Pattberg is a senior researcher and project leader at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam. He is also the deputy-director and research coordinator of the international Global Governance Project , a joint research programme of leading European universities, and Management Committee Chair of the European COST Action The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance. His current research focuses on the concept of transnational organisation, the overall architecture of global governance, the effectiveness and accountability of global public policy partnerships and the future of the global climate regime. Pattberg has recently been awarded the 2009 Science Prize of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).
Link: http://www.glogov.org/?pageid=25
Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs
Miranda Schreurs is the director of the Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to this she was Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Schreurs’ work focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the US, and East Asia. She was born and raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and Germany and briefly in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Michigan and her MA and BA from the University of Washington. She has also spent time researching or teaching at Harvard University, Utrecht University, the Freie Universität Berlin, Keio University, Chuo University, and Rikkyo University and has held fellowships from the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In July 2008 Miranda Schreurs was appointed to the German Advisory Council on the Environment.
Link: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/team/mitarbeiter/schreurs_miranda/index.html
Dr. phil. Karlheinz Steinmüller
Karlheinz Steinmüller is scientific director and founding partner of “Z_punkt GmbH – The Foresight Company” in Cologne and Berlin (www.z-punkt.de). As project manager he is engaged in futures studies for large, mostly German, enterprises and public administrations (European Commission, ministries etc.). His special fields of expertise include innovations in companies and society, technological foresight and technology assessment, scenario development and wild cards. Karlheinz Steinmüller has published several books on futures studies and many research reports. Steinmüller is collaborating with the Collège Européen de Prospective Territoriale and the committee on foresight methodology of the Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung. He is member of the Advisory Board of the 2bahead-Zukunftskonferenz. Recently, he has been appointed to the EU Expert Group “Global Europe 2030/2050″.
Link: http://steinmuller.de/pages/foresight/short-cv.php/
PhD Andreas Thiel
Andreas Thiel holds a M.Sc. in Economics and in European Environmental and Spatial Planning. His PhD thesis dealt with questions of Environmental Policy Integration. He won the “Barton Willmore Price” for the best dissertation in 2000. Andreas Thiel’s ongoing research interests and activities focus on re-scaling of resource governance in Europe in the context of the European Water Framework and Marine Strategy Framework Directives. His conceptual research interests are the “Social Sciences of Resources and the Environment” with a specific focus on the role of institutions and economics for social-ecological interactions and development. Previous substantive work focused on Europeanization and coastal development (water, tourism, agricultural, biodiversity and landscape politics and development) and transboundary water sharing, and on European governance and IA procedures of the European Union.
Link: http://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/struktur/institute/wisola/fg/ress/mitarbeiter/thiel
Dr. Helmut Weidner
Link: http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/tki/people/weidner.en.htm