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Speakers
Dr
Frank Biermann
Project Leader, Global Governance Project, Potsdam Institute
for Climate Impact Research, Germany
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Frank Biermann is an adjunct professor (Privatdozent) of political
science at the Free University of Berlin and director of the
Global Governance Project, a multidisciplinary research programme
of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK),
the Free University of Berlin, and Oldenburg University.
Most of his research has addressed questions of global governance
with a special focus on environmental policies and North-South
relations. He has authored three books-Internationale Meeresumweltpolitik
[International Marine Environmental Policy, 1994]; Saving the
Atmosphere: International Law, Developing Countries and Air
Pollution (1995); and Weltumweltpolitik zwischen Nord und Süd
[Global Environmental Policy Between North and South, 1998];
and co-authored Handelsliberalisierung kontra Umweltschutz?
[Trade Liberalization versus Environmental Protection?, 2001].
He has also co-edited a volume on sustainable development and
its implications for research and policy [Zukunftsfähige
Entwicklung, 1997]. He has published numerous articles in academic
and popular science journals, contributed to scientific books,
and widely distributed research papers, including articles in
Environment, Global Environmental Change, Global Environmental
Politics, Global Governance, International Environmental Affairs,
International Environmental Agreements, Revue de Droit International,
Journal of World Trade, as well as in German-language journals
such as Archiv des Völkerrechts, ZAU, ZfU, and Zeitschrift
für Internationale Beziehungen.
He has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government, USA, as well as at the
Secretariat of the German Advisory Council on Global Change,
Bremerhaven. He has also pursued research at the School of International
Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, at the University
of Maryland at College Park, USA, and at the Social Science
Research Centre, Berlin. He has taught and/or advised graduate
students at the Free University of Berlin, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, the Berlin Study Programme of Stanford University,
and the Trier University for Applied Sciences (FH).
Biermann chairs the Environmental Policy and Global Change section
of the German Political Science Association (DVPW),and has been
programme chair of the first two IHDP-endorsed Berlin Conferences
on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (2001
and 2002). He is also the initiator of the Indo-German Forum
on International Environmental Governance. He is a board member
of the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) and of the German
Association for the United Nations, Berlin-Brandenburg Chapter.
From 1995 to 1997, he chaired the Marine Affairs Working Group
of the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development.
Frank Biermann holds a habilitation (German post-doctoral academic
qualification, 2001), a Ph. D summa cum laude from the Free
University of Berlin (1997), and master's degrees in political
science (Free University of Berlin, 1993) and in international
law (University of Aberdeen, 1994), both with distinction.
During his university studies, he travelled extensively throughout
Africa, India, and many other countries. He was awarded full-time
scholarships by the Talented Students Programme of the Friedrich
Ebert Foundation (1991-93), the German Academic Exchange Service
(1993/94), the State of Berlin (1994-96), and again the German
Academic Exchange Service together with Harvard University (1998/99).
His doctoral thesis won the Joachim Tiburtius Prize 1998, which
is awarded every year by the State of Berlin for the best dissertations
of the Berlin universities. He was also selected by the German
UNESCO Commission as the representative for Germany to the International
Forum of Young Scientists during the 1999 UNESCO World Science
Conference. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the World Academy
of Art and Science.
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