Dr. Camilla Bausch
Scientific & Executive Director, Ecologic Institute Europe
Board Member
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Dr. Camilla Bausch has been Scientific & Executive Director of Ecologic Institute since 2015. Previously she had worked for over a decade at the Institute researching climate and energy policy.
Dr. Bausch was part of the German delegation to the UN climate negotiations for many years. In Germany she has been involved in the introduction and reform of emissions trading as well as in the development of energy law, in particular energy sector legislation. The implementation and effects of energy system transformation on neighbouring European countries are an important part of her work as is the further development of European climate and energy policy.
Dr. Bausch is spokesperson of the Ecological Research Network (Ecornet). She is co-editor of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR).
From 2009 to 2014 Dr. Bausch was a member (later chair) of the supervisory board of Greenpeace Germany. She initiated the EnergieWendeKunst project in 2013, heading the project until 2015.
In 2008/2009, Dr. Bausch took a sabbatical at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC, working for Edward J. Markey (former Senator for Massachusetts). Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, Dr. Bausch worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Dr. Bausch was born in Berlin (Germany). She spent a year in the USA just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, where she earned her high school diploma. After graduating from secondary school in Baden-Württemberg, she completed her law studies in Berlin and Cologne with a focus on European and environmental law. Subsequently, she obtained her doctorate in comparative law, publishing her dissertation on grid usage rules in the liberalised electricity market of the European Union.
Dr. Camilla Bausch has been awarded scholarship and fellowships from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the American Political Science Association (APSA), the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), the 21st Century Trust Oxford, the Wilton Park British German Forum, the Zeit Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Aspen Institute (among others).
In addition to her stays in the USA, Dr. Bausch has lived for longer periods in Belgium and Russia. She is a member of the Tönissteiner Kreis as well as numerous advisory boards.