Christian Egenhofer is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Energy and Climate Programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Bruxelles.
Previously he has been Research Fellow for EU Policies and Business Strategies at CEPS, Senior Research Fellow and Jean Monnet Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) of the University of Dundee, Assistant to the Head of Unit for the Ministry of Home Affairs in Stuttgart, Germany, Assistant at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, and Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He got his Master in International Business Administration, with a specialisation in International Relations, in 1986 at the University of Konstanz, followed by a Public Law Degree of the Ministry of the Interior, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
He has worked extensively in the fields of management and evaluation of research projects and political communication, as well as in the management of high-level European and global multi-stakeholder working groups. He is a member of several editorial boards, frequent reviewer for journals and evaluator for the European Commission (DG Research) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He is also regularly contributing to hearings of the European Commission and the European Parliament.
He publishes in newspapers and journals such as European Voice, Parliament Magazine, Eurofuture, OGEL – Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence, Nikkei, Deutsche Verkehrs Zeitung. He is also present in other media such as Bloomberg, Euronews, BBC World Radio, NTV, ORF.
Among his recent publications:
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C. Egenhofer (ed.), Beyond Bali: Strategic issues of the global climate change negotiations, CEPS Paperback (forthcoming);
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C. Egenhofer, ‘The Making of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Status, Prospects and Implications for Business’, in European Management Journal, December 2007;
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C. Egenhofer, N. Fujiwara, ‘Do regional integration approaches hold lessons for climate change regime formation? The case of differentiated integration in Europe’, in C. Carraro, C. Egenhofer (eds), Climate and Trade Policy, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Ma, USA: Edward Elgar, ESRI Studies Series on the Environment;
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C. Egenhofer, J.C. Jansen, S. Bakker, J. Jussila Hammes, Revisiting EU Policy Options for tackling Climate Change: a social cost-benefit analysis of GHG emissions reduction strategies, CEPS Paperback.
