Claudia Kemfert

Dr. Claudia Kemfert is a Head of the Department at The German Institute for Economic Research.
Prof., Dr. Claudia Kemfert has been head of the Department of Energy, Transportation, and Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004 and is a Professor of Energy Economics and Energy Policy at Leuphana University.
In 2006, she was recognized as a top researcher in the Elf der Wissenschaft by the DFG, the Helmholtz, and Leibniz Associations.
In 2011, she received the Urania Medal and the B.A.U.M Environment Prize in the science category, and in 2016 the German Solar Prize and the Adam Smith Prize for market-based environmental policy.
Until 2019, she was a Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at Hertie School of Governance and from 2004-2009 she was a Professor of Environmental Economics at Humboldt University.
She was appointed to the Expert Council for Environmental Issues at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in 2016.
She was an advisor to EU President José Manuel Barroso and is on advisory boards of various research institutions as well as federal and state ministries, as well as the EU Commission.
Claudia Kemfert was a member of the High-Level Expert Group of the EU Environment Commissioner and the Advisory Group on Energy of the European Commission (DG Research).
Since 2011 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Society of the Club of Rome.
She studied economics at the Universities of Bielefeld and Oldenburg (Ph.D.
1998) and Stanford.
As part of a research stay, she was at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan (1998).
From January 1999 to April 2000 she headed the junior research group at the Institute for the Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart.
From 2000 to 2004 she held a position as a junior professor and headed a junior research group at the University of Oldenburg.