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"Bioeconomy opens new paths for decarbonizing the economy and offers solutions for a transformation of many sectors towards sustainability."

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote

Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Faculty of Economics and Management, Leibniz University Hannover

The most important stages of the career

since 2006
Director of the Institute for Environment and Development Economics and Professor of Agricultural and Development Economics

1998-2006
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Development Research at the University of Bonn

2003
Habilitation in Agricultural Economics at the University of Bonn

2002-2003
Assistant Professor, Institute for Agricultural Policy, Market Research and Economic Sociology, University of Bonn

1995-1998
Young Professional/Project Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

1995
In-house consultant at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France 

1994
Doctorate in agricultural economics at the University of Kiel

Activities and Memberships

since 2020
Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Board of the Technical University of Munich for the Straubing Campus (Global Bioeconomy Alliance) 

2020
Visiting Scientist at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

2016-2020
Advisory Board Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

2017-2020
Member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), Accra, Ghana 

Since 2012
Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn 

since 2010
Senior Fellow at the Centre for Development Research at the University of Bonn

Biography

Prof. Ulrike Grote, Leibniz University Hannover, worked for the Asian Development Bank, Manila, the OECD, Paris, and the Centre for Development Research, Bonn. As former Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), she coauthored “Our Common Digital Future” (2019) and “Rethinking Land in the Anthropocene” (2020). She widely published on environmental and development concerns.

Focus

  • Land use, food security
  • Sustainable development
  • Value chain analysis

Future Challenges

  • Climate Change
  • Loss of Biodiversity
  • Food Security
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