Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau

Research Area

Global Public Policy

Short Biography

Andreas C. Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt where he holds the Franz Haniel Chair for Public Policy at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences. Before joining the Brandt School he served as Research Group Lead on the Energy Transition in the Global South at the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Center Potsdam (RIFS), as Professor in International Relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London and as Professor at Central European University's School of Public Policy in Budapest. He was Marie Curie Senior Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School and Adjunct Professor with John Hopkins' MSc program in energy policy and climate. He also held postdoctoral appointments at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Professor Goldthau is non-resident fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, the Global Public Policy Institute and the German Council on Foreign Relations, and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Professor's Goldthau's academic interests lie in energy security, energy geoeconomics and the political economy of the clean transition. His publications include The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources (Edward Elgar, 2018), Energy Union. Europe's new Liberal Mercantilism? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The EU Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy (Oxford University Press, 2015), The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), the Wiley Handbook on Global Energy Policy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Global Energy Governance: The New Rules of the Game (Brookings Press, 2010), Imported Oil and US National Security (RAND, 2009) and OPEC (Hanser, 2009).

Professor Goldthau serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Relations, Global Policy, Energy Policy, Contemporary Politics and Energy Research in Social Science, and sits on the steering committees of leading academic associations.