Professor of Economics and Technological Change at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn, Germany. He is President of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Lepoldina, the German Academy of Engineering, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). From 2020 to 2021, he was Chair of the Scientific Group convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Food Systems Summit.
