Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner previously served as Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security of United Nations University (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany, and Vice Rector of the United Nations University (UNU).
Prior to becoming Director of UNU-EHS in October 2018, Prof. Messner had been Director of the German Development Institute from 2003-2018. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2004-2019; since 2022 he holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Free University of Berlin.
Prof. Messner is an internationally recognised expert on globalisation / global governance, transformation pathways to sustainability, decarbonization of the global economy, sustainability and digital change, and international cooperation and societal change.
Prof. Messner has also been a member of a number of high-ranking policy advisory councils, including co-chairing the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany. He was a member of the Worlds Bank`s Global Knowledge Council, the EU`s Advisory Council on Global Development Cooperation.
He is currently a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Board Member of the Stockholm Environment Institute.
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