Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau

Prof. Dr. Andreas C. Goldthau is Senior Advisor in the research group Geopolitics of Energy and Industrial Transformation. He contributes to its research on green industrial policy and the geopolitical implications of the energy and industrial transformation. A particular focus of collaboration is the geopolitics of green industrialization in the context of decarbonization, including the steel and fertilizer sector.

Andreas C. Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt where he holds the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences. Before joining the Brandt School he served as Research Group Lead on the Energy Transition in the Global South at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Center Potsdam (RIFS), as Professor in International Relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London and as Professor at Central European University's School of Public Policy in Budapest. He was Marie Curie Senior Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School and Adjunct Professor with John Hopkins' MSc program in energy policy and climate. He also held postdoctoral appointments at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.