von Weizsäcker, Ernst

Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker was Co-President of the Club of Rome between 2012 and 2018. At the beginning of his career, Ernst served as professor and director of several universities and institutes, such as the UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development. In 1991, he became founding President of the Wuppertal Institute, which developed into a leading think tank on energy efficiency, material flows and climate policy. From 1998 to 2005 he was Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment. He then served as Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California. In 2007, he was appointed Co-Chair (with Ashok Khosla) of UNEP’s International Resource Panel.

Ernst is lead author of three Reports to the Club of Rome: Factor Four (1995), Limits to Privatization (2005),  Factor Five (2009) and Co-author of Come On! (2017) He lives in Emmendingen with his wife Christine, President of Ecoropa, and has five children.

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