R. Andreas Kraemer

Andreas Kraemer, Founder of Ecologic Institute and initiator of the Arctic Summer College, is currently Mercator Senior Fellow as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS Potsdam) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada, non-executive Director of the Fundação Oceano Azul, Portugal, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of German Studies at Duke University.

He is also a contributor to the Jean Monnet Network on Atlantic Studies, which is coordinated by the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil.  In 2015, he was Visiting Scholar at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at MIT.  His research focuses on the theory and practice of think tanks and how they function in different political systems, the interactions among policy domains and international relations, and global governance on environment, resources, climate and energy.

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