Prof. Dr. Joachim Schleich

Prof. Dr. Joachim Schleich has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI since 1998, initially in the Competence Centres for Energy Policy and Energy Systems as well as Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems. Until 2011, he was also head of the Business Unit Energy and Climate Policy. To this day, he continues to work as a researcher and project manager in the Business Unit Climate Policy in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. He focuses primarily on national and international environmental and energy policy. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal »Energy Efficiency«.

Joachim Schleich studied economics at the University of Mannheim (Diploma in Economics), the University of Florida in Gainesville (Master of Science in Economics) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, USA (PhD in Applied Economics). His main areas of focus were environmental and resource economics, empirical economic research, industrial economics and foreign trade.

Joachim Schleich has been an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech since 2004 and professor of energy economics at Grenoble Ecole de Management in France since 2011. There he headed the Energy Management Research Team until 2024.