CV

Member of the German Parliament, since 1980;
President of EUROSOLAR - The European Association for Renewable Energy;

General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE);
Author, policy innovator and global leader in the field of renewable energy

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Born 29th April 1944
University studies in Heidelberg and Berlin (Economy, Social Science, Public Law)PhD at Free University Berlin (1972)
Dr. h.c. at Technical University Varna, Bulgaria (1997)
Recipient of the Alternative Nobel Prize in Stockholm, 1999, granted for his worldwide commitment to Renewable Energy
Recipient of the World Solar Prize by the 2nd World Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion in Vienna, 1998
Recipient of the World Prize on Bio-Energy by the 1st World Conference on Biomass in Seville, 2000
Recipient of the Global Leadership Award by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) in New York, 2004
Recipient of the World Wind Energy Award by the World Wind Energy Conference in Bejing, 2004
Named Hero for the Green Century by TIME Magazine, 2002
Dr. h.c. at University Lüneburg, Germany (2007)
Prof. h.c. at Tongji University Shanghai, China (2008)
Since 1988 President of the European Association for Renewable Energies EUROSOLAR
Since 2001 General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE)
Seminal books on the renewable energy transition: Sonnenstrategie (1993), 8th edition 1999, published also in English under the title “A Solar Manifesto”, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, and Hungarian Solare Weltwirtschaft, 1999, 5th edition 2002, published also in English under the title “The Solar Economy”, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Danish, Arabian, Czech, Energy Autonomy (2005)