Research programme: Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function: Head of Programme
Specialization: Economic Geography
Work areas:
since 1/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Head, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
2006-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Head of Department „Sustainable Economic and Social Development” |
2000-2006 1995-2000 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Head of Department „Latin America” DIE Researcher |
1994-1995 | Scholarship of German Research Association / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research on "World market integration and industrial competi-tiveness exemplified by small Latin American countries" |
1992-1994 | Research fellow of Philipps University Marburg Research project "Trade liberalization and deregulation in small Third World countries" |
1989-1991 | Scholarship of German Academic Exchange Service – Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research on "Possibilities and limits of regional development in peripheral areas of Costa Rica" |
1986-1989 | Research fellow of the Latin American Institute of the Free University Berlin Research project "Agro-industrial development as key to overcome the crisis in Costa Rica?" |
1991 | PhD in Economic Geography Thesis on: “Regional Economic Development. Case Studies from Peripheral Regions in Costa Rica” |
1977-1986 | University of Hamburg: Studies in Economic Geography Graduation in June 1986 |
E-mail Tilman.Altenburg@idos-research.de
Phone +49 (0)228 94927-182
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130
Sustainable Global Supply Chains Report 2022
published by DIE, SWP, GIGA and ifW
April 2022
Green industrial policy: accelerating structural change towards wealthy green economies
Altenburg, Tilman / Dani Rodrik (2017)
in: Tilman Altenburg / Claudia Assmann (eds.), Green industrial policy: concept, policies, country experiences, Geneva; Bonn: UN Environment; German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), 1-20
Sustainability-oriented Innovation Systems in China and India
Altenburg, Tilman (ed.) (2016)
London: Routledge
Industrial policy in developing countries: failing markets, weak states
Altenburg, Tilman / Wilfried Lütkenhorst (2015)
Cheltenham: Elgar