Institut für Umweltmanagement
Prof. Dr. Lutz Wicke
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The IfUM and its acting persons on the one hand are doing research work on economic, instrumental and legal issues of environmental management (e.g. climate change, waste management, noise abatement strategies as well as on efficient policies for improving the environmental situation on the macroeconomic, the business and the public administration sector. Additionally they are consultants for public bodies such as environmental ministries and agencies and for Berlin and German firms.
On the other hand these persons are teaching environmental management with respect to business, national and sub-national governments and international communities in the Elective “Environmental Management”, which can be chosen by the students of ESCP Europe out of altogether 6 Electives. These lectures are held by the above named persons, who are specialists in macro-economic and instrumental matters (Prof. Wicke), in legal matters (Prof. Knebel) and business administration matters (Dr. Lieback) of environmental management.
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Prof. Dr. Lutz Wicke
Telefon: +49-30-365 23 07 / +49-30-320 07-159
Fax: +49-30-3680 2580
lutz.wicke@escp-eap.de
Prof. Wicke’s biography:
1965–1972
Study of Economic Engineering (technical specialised in ‘technical chemistry’) at the Technical University of Berlin,
1973–1978
Scientific assistant at the Technical University of Berlin
1972
Diploma as “Diploma Engineer”, master thesis in economics
1977
PhD (Dr. rer. pol) in economic sciences “The Influence of creeping inflation to the personal wealth distribution”
1982
Habilitation (highest academic degree) by up to ten reviewed articles in German scientific publications and a book “The personal wealth distribution in the Federal Republic of Germany”, followed by the academic position of a “Privatdozent”
1997
Professor for Economics (specialized in Economic policy and environmental policies) at the Technical University of Germany
1978–1991
Administrator at the Umweltbundesamt, Federal Environmental Agency of Germany,
1983–1991
Scientific Director
1991–1996
Staatssekretär (similar to a deputy minister as administrative head of a 1800 employees’ administration) for environmental matters of the City and Federal State of Berlin (Administration for Urban Development and Environment)
Since 1996
Director of the IfUM
Prof. Wicke is professor both at the Technical University of Berlin and ESCP Europe for Environmental Policies and Management; he hold an Engineer’s degree in technical economics (technical chemistry) and is the author of two standard readers in national and business environmental management. As a result of being Scientific Director at the Umweltbundesamt for long years and being a Deputy Minister for environmental issues in the City and Federal State of Berlin and of his various international assignments on behalf of Berlin and for the Federal Environmental Agency he has extensive political knowledge both at the national and the international level. (He has been a delegate and executive head in various international environmental conferences for Berlin and Germany.)
In addition to the 12 to 15 scientific and scientific-popular books he has published about 200 scientific and political articles and has managed around 120 various (economic-technical) environmental projects for the Federal Environmental Agency in all national and international environmental areas of activities (water, waste, noise and air-pollution, traffic and energy management, international issues of forest protection and of combating climate change and so on.) Beside of this he has worked since 1996 as consultant for various German firms, for the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and for the Federal Envirionmental Agency of Germany. In 1986 Prof. Wicke received the most prestigious “Theodor Heuss Preis (award)” for “his permanent and successful efforts to reconcile economy and ecology”.
