Professor Andreas Löschel holds a chair for Energy and Resource Economics at the University of Münster and is Director of the Centre of Applied Economic Research Münster (CAWM) since 2014. Since 2011, he chairs the Energy Expert Commission of the German Government to monitor the energy transformation, and since 2017 he directs the Virtual Institute Smart Energy North Rhine-Westphalia. He is Lead Author of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2014-2017) and served as Lead Author in the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2010-2014). He is an advisor for Aurora Energy Research Limited, Oxford, a ZEW research fellow, a Fellow member of the CESifo Network, and a research fellow of the Australian National University (ANU). He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Technology (acatech).