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Raimund Bleischwitz, Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH, Germany


Raimund Bleischwitz is an economist (PhD, ‘Habilitation’), Policy Advisor and Research Manager. Since November 2003 he is Co-Director of the Research Group ‘Material Flows and Resource Management’ at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany as well as visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (‘Toyota Chair for Industry and Sustainability’ until 2006), senior lecturer at Wuppertal University.

The research group at WI has doubled its annual revenues since 2003. Currently running projects are on resource productivity and sustainable resource management for the German government, on competitiveness and on hydrogen for the European Commission (www.roads2hy.com). Raimund Bleischwitz is involved in the coordination of an eco-efficiency study on behalf of the Japanese Government 2000 – 2004 as part of an international study programme (www.esri.go.jp) and the organization of conferences such as “Sustainable resource management, raw materials security, Factor-X resource productivity – tools for delivering sustainable growth” (12/06 Bruges, Belgium), “Environmental Economics: Competition, Institutions, Rationality” (9/04, Wuppertal). Previous positions of Raimund Bleischwitz were at the Max Planck Project Group on the Law of Collective Goods in Bonn, at the Institute for European Environmental Policy and in the German Bundestag and fellowships in Japan, Seoul/Korea, USA, and London/UK. Main fields of expertise: resource management / eco-efficiency (Factor 4), energy and climate policy, incentive systems, institutional analysis.

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