Eberhard Jochem has been full Professor for Economics and Energy Economics at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Institute of Technology) since 1999 where he founded the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE). He is also employed as a Senior Executive at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Eberhard Jochem works on technical and economic issues of efficient energy and material use as well as energy and climate policy. His research subjects include research and development and energy policy instruments and their impacts on employment, foreign trade and environment; he also follows the development of quantitative methods in these subject areas. The research issues are approached from the viewpoint of companies and sectors as well as from an administrative perspective in national, European and international contexts. He has been lecturing on various topics of technology assessment, energy issues, and the economics of national resources at Karlsruhe University since 1978 and since 1996 at the University of Kassel. In 2001, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German President for his interdisciplinary research and work on efficient use of energy and his bridge building between science, industry, and administration in this area. In 2007 on the occasion of the 9th IAEE Energy Conference, "Energy Markets and Sustainability in a Larger Europe" in Florence he was presented with the Award "Commitment for sustainable development" for outstanding contribution during 2006/2007 by Fondatione Energia and Gestore Servizi Elettrici.
Eberhard Jochem qualified as a process engineer and economist at the RWTH Aachen and at the University in Munich (PhD) he worked at Harvard University in Boston (1971-1972). In 1973 he moved to ISI in Karlsruhe, where he held the position of Deputy Director between 1983 and 1999. He was and is a member in various national and international scientific advisory committees, among others as Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III (1997 to 2002). He has been a member of the Council for Sustainable Development of the German Government since 2001 as well as of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) since 2005. He is member of the Editorial Board of three scientific journals and of the Encyclopaedia of Energy.
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