PROF. DR. ANDREAS LÖSCHEL 

Professor Andreas Löschel holds the Chair of Environmental/Resource Economics and Sustainability at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and researcher at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.

He studied economics in Nuremberg and completed his doctorate in Mannheim.

Before moving to the Ruhr region, he was professor at the University of Münster and the University of Heidelberg and was Head of Research at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.  

Since 2011, he has been Chairman of the Expert Commission for the Federal Government's “Energy of the Future” monitoring process and, since 2024, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academies' Initiative “Energy Systems of the Future” (ESYS) of acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

Andreas Löschel was lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports, where he was responsible for the chapters on climate mitigation pathways and energy systems.

The F.A.Z. economist ranking has repeatedly ranked him among the 50 most influential economists in Germany.

In 2022, Andreas Löschel was awarded the Joachim Herz Foundation's German Economics Prize for outstanding economic research.