Lucia Reisch

Biography

"Since 2006, I am a professor for consumer behaviour and consumer policy at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management. Since 2011, I also hold a permanent Guest Professorship at the Zeppelin University of Friedrichshafen (Germany) and, as of August 1st 2017, an appointment as honorary Leibniz Chair, jointly awarded by the German Leibniz Association and the Leibniz Institute of Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS). An economist and social scientist by training, I hold a doctorate degree in economics from University of Hohenheim / Stuttgart (Germany). My main research focus is on behavioural economics, sustainable consumption (in particular; energy, food and health, fashion), intercultural consumer behaviour, consumers and new technologies, consumer policy, and corporate sustainability. I am currently involved in several EU research projects on consumer behaviour and policy (FP7) as well as in German and Swedish research projects. In January 2014, I started three new FP7 EU Projects on sustainable consumption and policy. For more than a decade, I have been engaged in policy consultancy, e.g. as a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development and the Ethics Commission for Safe Energy Supply, both advising the German Chancellery. I am also a member of the Bioeconomy Council and as of 2015, the new Advisory Council on Consumer Policy in Germany (Sachverständigenrat Verbraucher), both consulting the German federal government. In 2012, I was elected to become one of the 400 lifelong members of Germany's Academy of Technical Sciences. I am also Editor in Chief of the Journal of Consumer Policy (Springer Publ)."

Research Interest

"Consumer research Consumer policy Sustainable consumption Public health and consumers Behavioural economics"