Claudia Kemfert


Claudia Kemfert 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.

Biography

Kemfert has led the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research 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 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, University of Moscow and University of Siena. 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. 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. 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. She furthermore acts as jury member for several significant sustainability prices.
Kemfert served as shadow minister for energy policy in the campaigns of Norbert Röttgen in North Rhine-Westphalia and of Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel in Hesse.
In addition, Kemfert holds a variety of positions, including the following:
Kemfert got an award from DAAD and was honoured in 2006 as top German Scientist from the German research foundation, Helmholtz and Leibniz Association. 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.

Selected publications