Klaus Rennings

Visiting Professor, European Economic Studies Department

Professor at the College of Europe since 2011.

Senior Researcher and Vice Head of the Research area “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management“ of the Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW) since 1994.

Member of the Expert Group of the Eco-Innovation Observatory of the European Commission and member of the committee environmental and resource economics of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).

M.A. in Economics and PhD on ‘Indicators for Sustainable Development’ from Münster University. Researcher at the Institute for Transport Economics from 1990 to 1994. Assistant at the "German Council of Environmental Advisors", an interdisciplinary advisory council of environmental scientists for the Federal German Government, from 1992 to 1994.

Co-ordination of several big national and international research projects, including the EU STRATA network Blueprint ("Blueprints for an Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy") and the EU Project I.Q. Tools ("Indicators and Quantitative Tools for Improving the Process of Impact Assessment for Sustainability"). He

Main fields of research: environmental and ecological economics ; development and valuation of concepts for sustainable development; innovation oriented environmental policy

Author of many publications on environment and sustainability.