Dr. Lars Holstenkamp

Scientific Experience

• Since October 2020 Co-Lead of social-ecological junior research group "SteuerBoard Energie" at the Institute for Sustainability Governance (INSUGO)
• Since January 2020 senior research fellow and head of the Lüneburg office of ECOLOG Institute for Social-Ecological Research and Education (non-profit), member of the managing board
• August 2015 - October 2020 senior research fellow at the Chair of Finance and Financial Institutions at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in different extramurally funded research projects
• February 2012 - July 2015 senior research fellow & coordinator of the project "EnERgioN" within the EU project Innovation Incubator Lüneburg
• June 2006 - January 2012 junior research fellow at the Chair of Finance and Financial Institutions at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in different extramurally funded research projects

Membership

• since 2016 vice-chair and treasurer of the German African Studies Association, 2006-2016 member of the steering committee
• founder member and since 2017 member of the coordinating team of the Research Network on Cooperatives in the Energy Transition
• member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and of the EMES International Research Network

Education

• 2019 PhD at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Dr. rer. pol.)
• April 2003 - March 2006 studies of economics, specializing in international relations/develoing countries at the University of Trier [development economics, international financial management, cultural anthropology; elective subject: political science]; diploma 2006
• April 2001 - March 2003 studies of economics and African languages at the University of Hamburg
• Scholarship by Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst