Marc Voelker, Ph.D. * in Hannover, Germany

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1 Marc Voelker, Ph.D. Eilenburger Str Leipzig Germany * in Hannover, Germany Education 04/ /2010 Ph.D. in Economics Dissertation: Mountain agriculture, natural resource extraction and risk perception: Determinants of vulnerability to poverty in rural Vietnam Overall grade: magna cum laude 10/ /2007 Diploma (equivalent to Master s degree) in Business Administration and Economics Diploma thesis: Economic impact of genetically modified cotton varieties in China: A panel data analysis Overall grade: good (Order of grades: very good, good, satisfactory, sufficient) Employment 07/2013 to present Research fellow Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany Develop conceptual framework of a deliberative monetary valuation study of ecosystem services and biodiversity. Organize and implement valuation workshops with the general public (including moderation). Evaluate nature conservation policies and instruments on the basis of relevant criteria like effectiveness, efficiency and equity. Supervise research assistants. Develop database application for survey data entry. Conduct econometric analysis of survey data (e.g. discrete choice modelling). Liaise with local and international project partners to ensure project deliverables are met. 12/ /2013 Consultant State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Ems, Germany Created reports on the state s sustainability strategy, overall account for environmental economics, CO 2 emissions and energy consumption. Supervised the creation of the office s economic report. Represented the State Statistical Office in the inter-state working groups for (i) energy consumption and (ii) overall accounts for environmental economics for the states. Page 1

2 01/ /2011 Postdoctoral researcher Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Worked on a research paper related to climate risk perception and risk management of rural households in Vietnam. 08/ /2010 Ph.D. Student/Research associate Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Analyzed determinants of vulnerability to poverty among rural households in Vietnam. Managed questionnaire design and sample selection for socio-economic household surveys. Spent eight months in Vietnam recruiting, training and supervising local field staff, and managing field logistics. Carried out survey data entry and cleaning. Analyzed data by means of various quantitative methods (including regression and mathematical programming models). 10/ /2006 Research assistant Lower Saxony Institute of Economic Research, Hannover, Germany Worked on two projects analyzing the qualification structure in Germany and developing the Hannover region economic report. Performed literature research, database maintenance, text composition, input, processing and graphical presentation of statistical data. 09/2004 Intern Lower Saxony Institute of Economic Research, Hannover, Germany Prepared data for statistical analyses and performed literature research. 08/ /2002 Intern National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico Worked at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Education on a project aimed at the development of a virtual business incubator. Composed a guideline for promoters of an enterprise. Teaching Faculty of Economics and Management, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Summer 2011 Winter 2010/2011 Winter 2010/2011 Summer 2010 Winter 2009/2010 Winter 2007/2008 Environmental Economics of Developing Countries Development and Environment Planning and Evaluation of Development Projects Environmental Economics of Developing Countries Tutorial: Development and Environment Planning and Evaluation of Development Projects Page 2

3 Publications Waibel, H., Tongruksawattana, S. & Voelker, M. (2013). Voices of the poor on climate change in Thailand and Vietnam. In: Ananta, A., A. Bauer & M. Thant (Ed.) (2013): The Environments of the Poor in Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. Voelker, M., Tongruksawattana, S., Waibel, H. & Schmidt, E. (2012). Impact of food price shocks on vulnerability to poverty: a mathematical programming approach. In: Klasen, S. und H. Waibel (Ed.) (2012): Vulnerability to poverty: Theory, measurement and determinants. Palgrave Macmillian. Voelker, M., Tongruksawattana, S., Hardeweg, B., & Waibel, H. (2011). Climate risk perception and ex-ante mitigation strategies of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, No. 79, 2011 (Berlin). Kiel: ZBW. Pemsl, D. E., Voelker, M., Wu, L. & Waibel, H. (2011). Long-term impact of Bt cotton: findings from a case study in China using panel data. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. Vol. 9 (4), Voelker, M. & Waibel, H. (2010). Do rural households extract more forest products in times of crisis? Evidence from the mountainous upland of Vietnam. Forest Policy and Economics. Vol. 6 (12), Unpublished manuscript Voelker, M. & Lienhoop, N. (In preparation). The impact of group dynamics on the effectiveness of deliberative monetary valuation studies of ecosystem services. Manuscript available upon request. Conference and workshop presentations Valuing unfamiliar ecosystem services with complicated methods: A learning design for Choice Experiments (Talk) Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 14, 2014 Climate-related risk perceptions of poor rural households in Vietnam (Talk) Economics, German Economic Association, Munich, Germany, June 22, 2013 Climate risk perception and ex-ante mitigation strategies of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam (Talk) Economics, German Economic Association, Berlin, Germany, June 25, 2011 Natural resource degradation as a response to shocks in mountainous areas of Vietnam (Talk) Economics, German Economic Association, Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2010 Page 3

4 Incorporating vulnerability to poverty in farm level models: experiences from Thailand and Vietnam (Poster) 114th seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Berlin, Germany, April 15, 2010 Climatic Risk and Farm Planning: a Mathematical Programming Model for Typical Farm Households in the Mountainous Upland of Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam (Talk) Annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG), Hamburg, Germany, October 7, 2009 The role of forest resource extraction as coping-mechanism for rural households in the mountainous upland of Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam (Talk) Workshop of the DFG Research Group on Vulnerability to Poverty in Southeast-Asia, Hue, Vietnam, February 24, 2009 Approaches to modelling vulnerability to poverty in rural households in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam (Poster) Annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (TROPENTAG), Hohenheim, Germany, October 8, 2008 Professional service Session chair, Valuing ecosystem services II, Biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 14, 2014 Discussant, Household's coping strategies and recovery from shocks in Vietnam, Workshop of the DFG Research Group on Vulnerability to Poverty in Southeast-Asia, Hannover, Germany, September 25, 2013 Reviewer for Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology and Applied Geography. Computer skills Stata, GAMS, MAXQDA, NGene, ArcGIS, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word Language skills German mother tongue English fluent oral and written Spanish conversant oral and written French basic oral and written Thai basic oral Vietnamese basic oral Page 4

5 References Dr. Irene Ring Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Permoserstr. 15, Leipzig, Germany Tel. +49 (0) Fax +49 (0) Prof. Dr. Hermann Waibel Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover Koenigsworther Platz 1, Hannover, Germany Tel. +49 (0) Fax +49 (0) Page 5