Barbara Praetorius

Barbara Praetorius is professor for sustainability energy & environmental economics and policy at HTW University of Applied Sciences in Berlin since April 2017. Before joining HTW she was a deputy director of the think tank Agora Energiewende. Prior to Agora Energiewende she headed the division Strategy and Key policy issues of the German Association of Local Public Utilities (VKU) from 2008 until 2014. Before she has been a Senior Researcher and Project Lead in the division Energy Transport Environment at DIW Berlin (the German Institute for Economic Research) from 1992 to 2008. At DIW she headed an interdisciplinary team of scientists from different research institutes with focus on the technical organisational policy and behavioral innovations in the power system. Dr. Barbara Praetorius studied economics and political science and received her doctorate from FU Berlin in 2000 with a thesis on sustainability and the electricity market in South Africa after democratization. Her research has been published in the form of numerous books papers and scientific journals both nationally and internationally with a focus on economic and energy policy analyses instruments and strategies for the support of sustainable innovations and energy supply structures.