Andreas Goldthau (DE) is Director of the Willy Brandt School and Franz Haniel Professor for Public Policy at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences, University of Erfurt. He is also Research Group Leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam. Before joining the Brandt School, Andreas Goldthau served as Professor of International Relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and as Professor at the Central European University’s School of Public Policy. He was a Marie Curie Senior Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Adjunct Professor with Johns Hopkins’ MSc programme in energy policy and climate. He also held postdoctoral appointments at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.He is non-resident fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, the Global Public Policy Institute and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).

Andreas Goldthau’s academic interests lie in energy security, global energy governance and the political economy of the low carbon transition. His recent publications include The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe. Energy Security, Contested Technologies and the Social License to Frack (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources (ed. with M. Keating and C. Kuzemko, Edward Elgar, 2018), Energy Union. Europe’s new Liberal Mercantilism? (ed. with S. Andersen and N. Sitter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (with N. Sitter, Oxford University Press, 2015), The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security (with C. Kuzemko and M. Keating, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), the Wiley Handbook on Global Energy Policy (ed., Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (ed. with C. Kuzemko, A. Belyi, M. Keating, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game (ed. with J.M. Witte, Brookings Press, 2010).

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