Director |
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Braun |
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| Department | ZEF B: Department of Economic and Technological Change | |
| Private website | http://sites.google.com/site/joachimvonbraun/ | |
| Contacts | Walter-Flex-Str. 3 53113 Bonn, Germany fon +49(0)228-73-1800 fax: +49(0)228-73-1869 email: jvonbraun@uni-bonn.de web: http://www.zef.de |
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| Professional experience | Joachim von Braun is an economist, with a Doctoral degree in agricultural economics from University of Göttingen, Germany. He joined ZEF as Professor and Director of the Department for Economic and Technological Change in December 2009. He was also Director at ZEF during its foundation phase 1997-2002. Before returning to ZEF, von Braun was Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington, DC, U.S.A. 2002 to 2009. von Braun also has been Professor for Food Economics and Policy at Kiel University, Germany. His research addresses international development economics topics, incl. markets and trade; poverty; health and nutrition; science and technology. von Braun serves on various boards of publishers of journals, as well as national and international advisory bodies of research and policy organizations. 2000-03 he was President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), he is member of the Academy of Science of North-Rhine Westphalia, of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and member of the International Policy Council (IPC); among awards received by von Braun are a honorary Doctoral degree from University of Hohenheim, and the Bertebos Prize of the Swedish Academy of Agricultural Sciences for his research on food security. (More details see CV) | |
| Publications |
2011.
See selected publications by thematic areas and their related web links at.
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| Additional Information | Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Google Scholar YouTube Google Books WorldCat |
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| Additionals, Curriculum Vitae and Downloads |
JVB_CV 2011_English.pdf JVB_CV 2011_Deutsch.pdf |
