DR. HANS-JOACHIM ZIESING

Dr. Hans-Joachim Ziesing is a Senior Research Associate with DIW econ and an internationally renowned expert on energy and climate change. He worked from 1969 to 2006 at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and headed over many years the department "Energy, Transport, Environment". As of 2007 he works as an independent consultant and advises the German government and the governments of other countries in the field of climate policy. His main topics are energy-economic analysis, forecasts and scenarios, the economics of energy systems, especially renewable energy and combined heat and power systems, energy efficiency indicators, environmental impacts of energy policies, climate change policy, sustainable development and particularly the emissions trading (national allocation plan of Germany and development of emissions trading in the post-Kyoto period). He holds a Ph.D. from the TU Berlin on economic evaluation of renewable energy. Dr. Ziesing is member of the governmental energy expert commission to support the monitoring process "Energy of the Future".

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