Robert Lepenies (born 22 May 1984) is a German political scientist and economist, currently employed as the president of the Karlshochschule International University.
Robert Lepenies (born 22 May 1984) is a German political scientist and economist, currently employed as the president of the Karlshochschule International University.
Lepenies studied politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Oxford, UK, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2008. He completed his master's degree in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics in 2014. He went on to the Hertie School of Governance Berlin and received his PhD in Political Science with a thesis entitled "Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications."
He conducted research at Yale University, USA, with a Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship, at the European University Institute, Italy, with a Max Weber Fellowship, and as a WZB ASK Prize Recipient at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). In 2017, he became a Research Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in the Department of Environmental Politics. [1] In October 2022, he became the president of the private Karlshochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany. [2] [3] There he teaches Plural Economics, Globalization Studies, Environmental Policy, and Behavioural Economics, among other subjects. [4]
In 2015, he received the German Young Academics Award for Plural Economics. In 2016, he was elected to the Global Young Academy for 'Scientific Excellence and Service' and to its executive committee in 2019 and 2020. [5]