Dirk Messner

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Dirk Messner in the Federal Environment Agency. Photo: Susanne Kambor

Dirk Messner (born April 23, 1962 ) is a German political scientist . He has been President of the Federal Environment Agency since January 2020 .

Life and research

Dirk Messner studied political science and economics at the Free University of Berlin and Sogang University in Seoul from 1982 to 1988 . From 1989 he worked at the German Development Institute with a focus on Latin America and received his doctorate in 1995 from the Free University of Berlin . In 2002 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Challenges of Globalization in Latin America . His work focuses on development research and policy , global governance , international policy on climate change and international competitiveness.

From 1995 to 2003 he was scientific director of the Institute for Development and Peace in Duisburg. From 2003 to 2018 he was director of the German Development Institute in Bonn.

Messner has been an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2006 . From 1995 to 2003 he was a private lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Free University of Berlin, and in 2003 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Munich.

Dirk Messner was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2004 to 2019 , from 2009 as deputy chairman, from 2013 as co-chairman.

Since 2011 he has also been co-director of the Käte-Hamburger- Kolleg / Center for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg. Together with Gesine Schwan, he is chairman of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany.

From late 2018 until the end of 2019 he was director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University (United Nations University, UNU) in Bonn and Vice-Rector of UNU.

Publications (selection)

  • with Silke Weinlich (Ed.) (2015): Global cooperation and the human factor in international relations. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Climate protection: how can tipping points for climate compatibility be achieved? In: Ellen Ueberschär (Hrsg.) (2015): So that we can be smart: the most important texts of the Stuttgart Church Congress, Gütersloh: Gütersloher contract house, 157-166.
  • Shaping global sustainability in the umbrella of comprehensive globalization - Germany's role. (2015) in: The Chinese Journal of Global Governance 1 (1), 16-35.
  • with Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber , Claus Leggewie , Reinhold Leinfelder , Stefan Rahmstorf , Jürgen Schmid , Nebosja Nakicenovic , Renate Schubert , Sabine Schlacke (2014): The great transformation: climate - can we beat the heat? In: Alexandra Hamann, Claudia Zea-Schmidt (eds.), Berlin: Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Government on Global Change (WBGU).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WELT: Government: Dirk Messner becomes the new President of the Federal Environment Agency . July 31, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Hanna Gersmann : the portrait: man of the future: the new head of the Federal Environment Agency, Dirk Messner . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 8, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 2 ( taz.de [accessed on January 8, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c d Dirk Messner on the DIE website. Retrieved December 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ City of Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgart.de
  5. ↑ a b Dirk Messner on the WBGU website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wbgu.de
  6. ↑ Federal Environment Agency: Federal Environment Agency: President. In: www.umweltbundesamt.de. Federal Environment Agency, March 9, 2020, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. rer. pole. Dirk Messner. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  8. ^ Federal Environment Agency: Vita Dirk Messner. In: www.umweltbundesamt.de. Federal Environment Agency, January 1, 2020, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ German Development Institute: Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) . ( die-gdi.de [accessed on January 18, 2017]).
  10. ^ "Messner, Dirk - Expert Profile" ak. CV, unu.edu
personal data
SURNAME Messner, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1962