Jochem, Eberhard

Biography

Eberhard Jochem has been Professor for Economics and Energy Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich from 1999 to 2007. He founded the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) with his colleagues Massimo Filippini and Daniel Spreng. He is employed as a Senior Executive at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe, Germany. Eberhard Jochem is working 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 as well as the innovation of efficient energy use and energy policy instruments and their impacts on employment, foreign trade and environment; he also followes 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 was lecturing on various topics of technology assessment, rational energy use and the economics of national resources at Karlsruhe University, on Energy Economics at the University of Kassel where he was given the title of Professor in 1998. In 2001 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German President for his research and work on economics and policy. Eberhard Jochem was born in Essen in 1942 and after qualifying 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 the Fraun-hofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (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) and a Member of the Enquête Commission (1999 - 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 Ency-clopaedia of Energy.

Research Interest

His research subjects include research and development as well as the innovation of efficient energy use and energy policy instruments and their impacts on employment, foreign trade and environment; he also followes the development of quantitative methods in these subject areas