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Prof. Dr. Marc Oliver Bettzüge
is the provisional managing director of EWI. He has been full professor of economics at the University of Cologne and Director of the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI) since 2007. His research interests comprise institutional and economic issues in energy economics and energy policy.
Professor Bettzüge is an active member of various scientific and advisory boards as well as of national and international academic committees. From 2011 to 2013, he has been a member of the German Parliament’s Commission on “Growth, Wellbeing and Quality of Living”.
After studying mathematics and economics at the Universities of Bonn, Cambridge and Berkeley, he received his doctorate in economics with a thesis on “Financial Innovation from a General Equilibrium Perspective.” Following that, Professor Bettzüge worked as a researcher at the Universities of Bonn and Zurich, and as a management consultant with internationally renowned consulting firms. Prior to his appointment to the University of Cologne, he held the position of Partner and Vice President with the strategy consultancy The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).