Andreas Löschel

Chairman, Commission of Experts for Monitoring Energy Transformation, German Professor and Head of Department, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Professor of Economics, University of Heidelberg

Professor Dr. Andreas Löschel is Head of the Department for "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management" at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2011, he has chaired the government's Energy Expert Commission to monitor energy transformation in Germany. He serves as lead author in the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2010-2014) and is Research Associate at Economics for Energy, Madrid, and the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Economics & Government, Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. 

He joined ZEW in 1999. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as Scientific Officer for the European Commission at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain. He was visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003), Stanford University (2005), ANU (2010, 2011) and Tsinghua University Beijing (2013) as well as visiting professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (2006-2007). Löschel studied economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Diplom-Volkswirt), the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Wayne State University, Detroit (M.A.). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim (2003) and his Habilitation (university teaching credential) in economics from the University of Oldenburg (Dr. rer. pol. habil.) (2009).

Prof. Andreas Löschel has advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, and national ministries in Germany and the UK on environmental, energy and climate change issues. He was a member of the delegation of the European Commission at the climate conference in Bali (2007) and of the German delegation at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), MEPC 64, in London (2012) and participated actively in several climate conferences. His research interests are international environmental economics, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy, and quantitative economic modeling. He has published more than 30 articles in journals of the Social Sciences Citation Index including journals such as Ecological Economics, Economica, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. The Handelsblatt ranking of German speaking economists ranked him for consecutive years among the Top-100 Economists under 40 (2007-2011).