The International Advisory Board

The International Advisory Board stands for the independence of research and the Institute's scientific quality. It evaluates the Wuppertal Institute's annual research agenda, which is then passed by the Supervisory Board.

Members of the International Advisory Board are:

Professor Frans Berkhout

Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Dr Joan Davis

Water expert and senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Zurich

Professor Hartmut Graßl

Emeritus professor, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

Professor Martin Jänicke

Professor of Comparative Political Sciences at the Free University of Berlin. Vice-Chairman of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (Umweltrat)

Professor Eberhard Jochem

Senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe. Professor of National Economics and Energy Policy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. Director of the Center for Energy Policy and Economics

Professor Thomas B. Johansson

Professor at the University of Lund. Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Professor Lenelis Kruse-Graumann

(Chair of the International Advisory Board)

Professor of Environmental Psychology at the FernUniversität/University of Hagen, Institute of Psychology

Professor Akio Morishima

Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Tokyo

Professor Hans G. Nutzinger

University of Kassel, Department of Economics

Professor Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber

(Vice-Chair of the International Advisory Board)

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Distinguished Science Adviser at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research of the University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich

Dr Leena Srivastava

Executive Director at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi

Professor John Whitelegg

Research Leader at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York