Miranda A. Schreurs is a professor of environment and climate policy in the School of Governance, Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on the governance of climate change, low-carbon energy transitions, and sustainable development in Germany and the European Union, the United States and East Asia.
Schreurs is vice chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (and was formerly chair); international director of the board of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (Japan); a member of the Advisory Board of the Swiss National Foundation’s NSF Research Program 71 on the Swiss Energy Transition; and co-chair of the National Committee to Monitor the Nuclear Waste Management Site Location Search in Germany. She has served on numerous governmental advisory bodies in Asia — including the China Council for Environment and Development — and Europe, advising on energy transition, climate governance and sustainable development.
She has published widely on environmental and energy matters in leading academic presses, for policymakers, and for more general audiences. In addition, Miranda Schreurs is a member of the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS).
She holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan.
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