Molitor, Katharina

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Katharina Molitor

Research programme
Environmental Governance

Function
Advisor to the Director / WBGU

Specialization
Geography

Work areas

  • Smallholder Agriculture and Agrarian Livelihoods in the Global South
  • Food and Nutrition security
  • Agro-food Networks
  • Value Chains
  • Critical Studies of Markets and Marketization
  • Practice Theories

Regional expertise

  • South Asia

Vita

since 5/2021German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
(until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
Advisor to the Director / German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
2022 – 2023
2018 – 2020
Parental leave
since 2016Universität zu Köln
PhD candidate, Graduate School of Geosciences, Institute of Geography (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Boris Braun, University of Cologne; Prof. Dr. Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney)
8/2017–10/2017University of Sydney, Australien
PhD visiting scholar
3/2017–4/2017University of Rajshahi, Bangladesch
PhD visiting scholar
7/2016–11/2016AGIAMONDO e.V.
Freelancer in the field of Capacity Development
1/2016–3/2017University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Research Assistant,  (a.o. university teaching: seminar "New Approaches and Models in Economic Geography", preparatory seminar for the excursion to Ghana)
2015/16University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Teaching assignment "Opportunities and Challenges in the Global South"
6/2015–10/2015Graduate School of Geosciences, Universität zu Köln
Scholarship holder "Start-up Honours Grant“
5/2015   Engagement Global gGmbH
Seminar assistant sustainable management ("Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften")
10/2011–4/2015University of Cologne
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geography, (minor subjects: Anthropology)
3/2015Engagement Global gGmbH
seminar leader, follow-up seminar "ASApreneurs"
10/2014–11/2014University of Rajshahi, Bangladesch
Visiting scholar, DAAD Promos
11/2013–12/2014AGIAMONDO e.V.
freelancer in the field of Capacity Development
11/2013Engagement Global gGmbH
Seminar assistant "fair trade - fair procurement“
1/2013–7/2013   Academy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Student assistant for Capacity Development

10/2009–3/2015

University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Research assistant, a.o. DFG-funded research project: "Städtische Umweltqualität als Ergebnis von Aushandlungsprozessen - industrielle Unternehmen als Akteure in der Umwelt-Governance in Indien"; DFG-funded research project: "Ressourceneffizientes Bauen in regionalen Strategien für Nachhaltigkeit: Multiakteurs-Governance und innovative Bautechnologien in Australien, Kanada und Europa (GreenRegio)",Tutor for Urbanisation and the Economic Development (2 semesters long), Tutor for Statistics and mathematical methods (7 semesters long)
10/2008-9/2011

University of Cologne
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geography, (minor subjects: Anthropology, Macroeconomics)

Refereed Publications

Non-refereed Publications

  • Bassen, Alexander / Jörg E. Drewes / Markus Fischer / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Karen Pittel / Hans-Otto Pörtner / Sabine Schlacke / Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann / Anke Weidenkaff (2024)
    Biodiversity: Act now for nature and humanity
    Berlin: WBGU - German Advisory Council on Global Change
  • Bassen, Alexander / Jörg E. Drewes / Markus Fischer / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Karen Pittel / Hans-Otto Pörtner / Sabine Schlacke / Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann / Anke Weidenkaff (2024)
    Biodiversität: Jetzt dringend handeln für Natur und Mensch
    Berlin: WBGU - Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen
  • Strupat, Christoph / Liz Grant / Maike Voss / Katharina Molitor / Sophie Gepp / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Saravanan Subramanian / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
    Global transformation towards planetary health
    in: T7 Task Force Global Health, 30.03.2022

Opinion Pieces

Projects

    Contact

    E-mail  katharina.molitor@idos-research.de
    Phone +49 (0)228 94927- 347
    Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130

     

    Linkedin-Profile

     

    @KathiMolitor