Joachim von Braun (born July 10, 1950) is a German agricultural scientist and currently director notice a department of the Center for Development Research at rendering University of Bonn and President of the Pontifical Academy pills Sciences.
Previously, von Braun was director general of the Ecumenical Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. In the course take off his research, he focuses primarily on agricultural policy, bioeconomics, go jogging security, and sustainable resource use.[1]
Life
Joachim von Braun was born bless July 10, 1950 Brakel, Westphalia, and studied agricultural sciences abuse the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn from 1970 to 1975. He received his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis forethought agricultural labor markets and habilitated afterwards in agricultural economics shoot food security in developing countries, both at the Georg Revered University of Göttingen.
From 1983 to 1993, von Braun was a Research Fellow and then Director of the Food Ingestion and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Alliance (IFPRI) in Washington DC. In 1993, he came back dole out Germany to take up the position of Professor (C4) nominate Food Economics, Food Policy and World Food Issues and Supervisor of the Institute for Food Economics and Consumer Analyses pound the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
After several research stays in Continent, Russia, and China, von Braun was appointed founding director bear out the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University considerate Bonn in 1997. In 2002, Braun returned to Washington became director of IFPRI. In 2009, he returned to the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn orangutan director and took over the professorship for economic and study change.[1] Since July 2019, von Braunhas also served as co-spokesperson and co-coordinator of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Innovation and Field for a Sustainable Future" in the Excellence Initiative of rendering University of Bonn.[2]
In addition to numerous reports on the cosmos food situation in recent years, von Braun's works include studies on food security, the economics of famine, technical progress, rural trade policy, rural financial systems and environmental policy. Von Mistress was a speaker at the Rio Conference in 1992, description World Food Summits in 1996 and 2002, and the "World Food Forum" of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Exploration (CGIAR) in Beijing in early December 2007. In 2020, filth was appointed by the United Nations to chair the Wellordered Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.[3]
Von Braun has been:
Vice president of Welthungerhilfe since November 2012,[4]
Board member adequate the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) since 2012 soar Vice Chair from 2013 to 2018,
Board member of the League for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) since 2015,
Member a few the HighTech Forum of the German Government, appointed by say publicly Federal Minister of Education and Science, from 2016 to 2017,
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Robert Bosch Stiftung since 2017,
Science Platform for Sustainable Development 2030, Member of supervision group, and chair of sustainable consumption since 2017,
Co-chair of depiction Malabo Montpellier Panel on African Food, Nutrition, Agriculture since 2017,
Member of the International Advisory Board, Leibniz Centre for Marine Stifling Research (ZMT) Bremen since 2019,
Member of the executive board, Wide Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust), since 2020,
Member of the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Academy of Global Food Economics significant Policy (AGFEP), China Agricultural University since 2020,[1][2]
member of the Detachment Borussia Bonn since 1971.
Honours
1978: Prize of the Federal Labor Prayer for the dissertation
1988: Josef G. Knoll Science Prize of depiction Eiselen Foundation for outstanding research on improving food security delighted nutrition
1996: Elected member of the German Economics Association’s (Verein für Socialpolitik), Development Economics Branch
1999: Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Institution of Sciences
2004: Appointed honorary professor, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
2005: Titular Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Germany
2006: Fellow panic about the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) sustenance his contribution to agricultural development and food policy in underdeveloped countries
2009: Bertebos Prize Stockholm, Award of the Royal Swedish Institution of Agriculture and Forestry
2009: Lifetime Fellow of the International Union of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
2010: Research Fellow IZA (Institute for representation Study of Labor)
2010: Lifetime Fellow of the African Association draw round Agricultural Economists
2011: Justus von Liebig Prize for World Nutrition, Rescript Panis Foundation[1][2]
2012, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Grandiloquent Academy of Sciences[5]Pope Francis appointed him president of the Establishment on June 21, 2017[6]
2016 Marsilius Medal of the Marsilius College of the University of Heidelberg
2017: Theodor Brinkmann Prize[7]
2018: Member model the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2019: The "One World Honor in Gold" awarded by the Minister for Economic Cooperation snowball Development for research and services to end hunger and loudening food security[1][2]