Biography
Raimund Bleischwitz is BHP Billiton Chair in Sustainable Global Resources at University College London (UCL), and Deputy Director at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR). He is currently Principal Investigator of an international collaborative project on the circular economy in China (SINCERE), and participates in a number of EU projects on eco-innovation and raw minerals (Green.EU/Inno4SD, RECREATE, POLFREE, Minatura, Mica).
He had previous positions at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany, at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium), at a Max Planck Institute, at the Institute for European Environmental Policy and in the German Budestag; and fellowships at the Transatlantic Academy (TA) in Washington DC, at Johns Hopkins University (AICGS JHU) and in Japan (JSPS).
Raimund has a PhD and a ‘Habilitation’ in economics. His research interests cover sustainable development, resource efficiency, the resource nexus, conflict minerals, international governance, the interface of policy and industry, and resulted in more than 200 publications. His recent book written with five international co-authors is “Want, Waste, or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals“, Routledge/Earthscan Publisher 2015, see: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138784468/