Chancellor Merkel said she wants Germany and Europe to play a leading role in 'climate
protection' intersting that her advisor in global warming issues is a Jesuit!
He is head of the Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the highest ranking german.
Ottmar Edenhofer is also climate change advisor of the German Foreign Minister.
Edenhofer is the second man at the Potsdam Institute for CLimate change. The institute is run by the leading experts on cliamte change, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.
This is his homepage:
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/in...set_language=en
Here we see how he is still connected with the Jesuits:
http://www.klima-und-gerechtigkeit.de/uplo...limapolitik.pdf
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/im..._schwarzenegger
Edenhofer and Schwarzenegger
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/me...ronicle-30-8.07
SF chronicle Article
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/images/p8summit
Edenhofer and Prince Charles.
Note that Edenhofer is Knight of the British Empire.
# Date of birth: 08.07.61 in Gangkofen, Lower Bavaria
CV can be downloaded as pdf here:
# Familiy status: married, 2 children
full version (55 pages)
# Citizenship: German
short version (4 pages)
# Languages: German, English
Education
# 1987
Diplomvolkswirt, University of Munich
# 1991
B.A. Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich
Professional Experience
# 1981-1987
Founding of a private enterprise; several occupations in the Public Health System
# 1987-1994
Member of the Jesuit order
# 1991-1993
Chief of an Humanitarian Aid Organization (Jesuit Refugee Service) in Croatia and Bosnia
# 1993-1994
Journalist
# 1994-2000
Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt
# 1999
Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude), Social Conflict and Technological Change. Evolutionary models of Energy Use.
# 2000-2005
Deputy of the Head of Department of Global Change and Social Systems
# since 2003
Leads together with Herman Held the Project 'Ocean Sequestration and the Transformation of the Global Energy System' funded by the Volkswagenstiftung
# since 2003
Leader of the Project SPARK
# 2004 - 2008
Lead-author of the IPCC, chapter 1 and chapter 11; the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Price in 2007
# since 2004
Chief Scientist in IMCP (Innovative Modelling Comparison Exercise)
# since 2005
Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
# 2006
Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Energy Journal: Edenhofer, O., C. Carraro, J. Koehler, M. Grubb: Endogenous Technological Change and the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. The Energy Journal.
# 2006
Leader of the Mitigation Part of the ADAM Project together with Professor Eberhard Jochem
# 2006
Organiser of the internationale Conference "Low Stabilisation Scenarios - Costs, Technologies and Strategies", 16./17. March in Potsdam in cooperation with FEEM
# 2007
Member of the German Delegation in Bangkok, IPCC, WG lll
# since 2007
Key Climate Change Advisor to Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
# since 2007
Deputy-Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
# 2007
appointment as president of the Wuppertal Institute together with a professorship for Environmental Economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal; appointment turned down
# since 2008
Professor for "Economics of climate change" at the Technical University Berlin
# since 2008
Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC
Scientific Honourations
# August 2005
Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst
# since 2007
Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg
# since 2008
Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomi
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