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Cherp Aleh

Professor
Environmental Science and Policy
Central European Institute of Technology
Hungary

Biography

Aleh Cherp is a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. In 2010-2012 Prof. Cherp served as the Academic Secretary and in 2008-2012 as the Research Director of CEU. His research interests include political economy of energy transitions and energy security. In 2014-2015 he lead a project on energy transitions supported within the Transformations to Sustainability Program of the International Social Sciences Council. In 2008-2012 he was the Convening Lead Analyst on Energy Security of the Global Energy Assessment. Prof Cherp has undertaken professional work for the European Environment Agency (EEA), UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and USAID among others. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Energy Research and Social Science. He was the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, a panel chair and an evaluator of the European Research Council and the coordinator for MESPOM, Masters course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, which CEU operates jointly with Lund University (Sweden), the University of Manchester (UK), the University of the Aegean (Greece), the Monterey Institute for International Relations (USA) and the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). Prior to joining CEU in 2000, he earned his Masters and PhD at Manchester University and worked with NGOs and the United Nations in Central Asia, Russia and Belarus. He also founded an Environmental NGO in Moscow during the political change in the Former Soviet Union. His first degree was in Physics.

Research Interest

Environmental Assessment and Planning, ETC: Energy Transitions and Climate Change, IEM: Introduction to Environmental Management, Introduction to Environmental Economics, Introduction to Environmental Management: Environmental Assessment of Products and Services, Sustainable Energy Transitions.

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