Economist Emmanuel Asane-Otoo appointed

Dr. Emmanuel Asane-Otoo has been made Junior Professor of Economics with special focus on environmental economics at the Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Economic Policy research group. Asane-Otoo studied agricultural sciences at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He then took the international Master’s degree course ”Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis” at the University of Bonn and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, graduating with a double Master’s in Economics and Food, and Resource Economics. During this period, he was funded by an Erasmus Mundus grant from the European Commission. In 2017, he completed his PhD at the University of Oldenburg with a thesis on energy and climate policy.

His research focuses on energy economy and the economics of climate change, using econometric methods and numerical equilibrium models.