Andreas Löschel


Andreas Löschel is a German economist currently holding the chair of Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster. He is the director of the Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster. His research interests include applied microeconomics, energy economics and the economics of climate change. He is ranked among the most influential economists in his field. In an annual Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ranking, he is among the 25 most influential economists in Germany.

Education

Löschel studied Economics at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg and Wayne State University. In 2003, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Mannheim. He subsequently completed his habilitation in 2009 at the University of Oldenburg.

Career

Löschel is an advisor to Aurora Energy Research Limited. Since 2005, Löschel has been a Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research, where he has also held the position of the Director of the Environmental and Resource Economics Department between 2007 and 2014. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Professor for Economics focusing on Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2011, he has chaired the Energy Expert Commission on the monitoring process Energie der Zukunft project of the German federal government. In 2017, he was furthermore elected as a member of the German National Academy of Science and Technology. Löschel is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the research projects "Energiesysteme der Zukunft" of acatech and part of the Research Platform Energiewende of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Löschel is a lead author of the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Research

Löschel was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Stanford University, ANU, Tsinghua University Beijing and the University of Oxford. Since 2014, he has been a visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics Beijing.
His research interests include applied microeconomics, energy economics and the economics of climate change. Löschel's publications have been extensively cited.

Other activities

In 2007, Löschel was a member of the European Commission’s delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. He also participated in the subsequent conferences in Posznan, Copenhagen, Durban, Warsaw and Lima.
Since 2017, Löschel has been serving on the Scientific Commission of the State of Lower Saxony, under Minister-President Stephan Weil.

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