Folkhard Isermeyer

Folkhard Isermeyer (born January 5, 1958 in Braunschweig ) is a German agricultural economist . He is President of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (short: Thünen Institute).

Life

Isermeyer studied agricultural sciences from 1978 to 1982 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1987. He stayed as a research assistant at the university until 1990 and then moved to the Institute for Business Administration at the Federal Research Center for Agriculture (FAL) (until 2007) and the Thünen Institute (2008 to 2009). In 1996 he became an honorary professor at the Georg August University. In 1998/99 he was President of the FAL. He has been President of the Thünen Institute since 2009.

Isermeyer has been a member of the Bioeconomy Council (BÖR) since 2009 . He has been chairman of the advisory committee of the animal welfare industry initiative since 2015 and was a member of the animal welfare competence group at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) from 2014 to 2016 . He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Agricultural Policy at the BMEL and its chairman from 2003 to 2011.

Web links

Isermeyer at the Thünen Institute

Individual evidence

↑ BMEL - Animal Welfare Initiative of the BMEL - Animal Welfare Competence Group accompanies the Animal Welfare Initiative. In: www.bmel.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Isermeyer, Folkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German agricultural economist
DATE OF BIRTH	5th January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig

[1] BMEL - Animal Welfare Initiative of the BMEL - Animal Welfare Competence Group accompanies the Animal Welfare Initiative. In: www.bmel.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .