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1 Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL INFORMATION Full Name: Nicolas Gerber Date, Place of Birth: 15 May 1972, Lausanne, Switzerland Nationality: Civil Status: Current address: Swiss Married, two children Franz-Lohe-Str. 30, Bonn, Germany Telephone mobile: EDUCATION 01/ /2006 PhD in Economics University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Research themes: axiomatic evaluation of species-level biodiversity measures; stability analysis of systems of non-linear difference equations of species interactions; impacts of market structures on the extraction of non-timber forest products a case study in Papua New Guinea 10/ /1998 M.Sc. in Environmental & Resource Economics University College London, England 10/ /1997 Licence en Sciences Economiques (eq. BSc. + MSc. in Economics) Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland WORK EXPERIENCE 04/ Senior Researcher Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany Department of Economic and Technological Change Research on: Agricultural innovation and sustainable intensification: drivers and impacts at household and national levels Food and nutrition security: determinants, indicators and country typologies Land degradation, desertification and drought: indicators, drivers and costs of action versus inaction The nexus of agriculture and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): behavioral determinants of drinking water quality, health and nutrition impacts Large scale land investments in Africa: impacts on local land and labor markets The economic sustainability of bio- and renewable energies in developing countries Project management, including: Staff management and recruitement - 24 colleagues since 2010 Financial management and reports to donors, budget allocation - EUR 2.6 millions since 2010 Team leadership and liaisons in international research teams and partnerships - experience with over 45 international project partners (academic institutions, international organisations, national and regional science and policy organisations) Progress reports to donors - experience with 6 national and international funding bodies (public and private) Contracting of consultants and sub-contrators Page 1 of 6

2 Co-authoring of research proposals and grant applications on: Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security successful (EUR millions) The economics of land degradation successful (EUR 1.19 millions) The economics of land degradation, desertification and drought successful (EUR ) DAAD Alumni Special Project 2010 Summer school on the application of photovoltaic techniques in developing countries, successful (EUR ) Sustainability schemes for bio-based products pending (2nd stage) Monitoring, modelling and managing the transition towards a sustainable nutrition-health-environment system pending (2nd stage) Tipping points of food security in coupled social-ecological systems - pending Organisation of international conferences and symposia: FOODSECURE final conference Policies that matter A science-policy event on Europe s role in eliminating global hunger and malnutrition. Pre-event to the Food 2030 Conference Research and Innovation for Tomorrow s Nutrition and Food System, Brussels, October 12-13, 2016 The future of African food and nutrition security, Organized Symposium at the African Association of Agricultural Economists Conference 2016, Addis Ababa, September 2016 Agricultural and rural innovation for food and health, Organized Symposium at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Milan, August 8-14, 2015 Food and nutrition security: how research informs policy, Session at the EuroScience Open Forum, Copenhagen, June 2014 Soil, land and food security the challenges for science, economics and policy, Session at the EuroScience Open Forum, Dublin, June, 2012 Annual International Conference 2012, German Economic Association meeting of the Research Committee on Development Economics Communication and outreach activities: Organization of international conferences (e.g.: FOODSECURE Final Conference Policies that matter A science-policy forum on Europe s role in eliminating global hunger and malnutrition. Organized with the European Commission s high level event Food Research and Innovation for Tomorrow s Nutrition and Food System Brussels, October Organization of symposiums (e.g. : Agricultural and rural innovation for food and health, organized for the International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Milan, August ) Policy and Issue Briefs for the practitioners and the policy-makers Mentoring of doctoral candidates: Academic advisor for 11 candidates (3 completed, 8 in progress), supporting them from the formulation of a research proposal, to the implementation of the research (field logistics, financial planning, data collection, survey instruments and conceptual and theoretical frameworks) and the completion and presentation of the research (analysis of the data, seminar presentations and writing-up the doctoral thesis) Teaching: Interdisciplinary courses on Development Policy and Methods of Policy Analysis (Agricultural Faculty, University of Bonn), Renewable energy in developing countries (ZEF doctoral program), and research proposal writing (ZEF doctoral program) Founding and active member of the ZEF Research Ethics Committee: Development of the ZEF Research Ethics Policy, Development of the ZEF Application Form for Ethical Clearance, evaluation of applications Page 2 of 6

3 09/ /2006 Research Officer Environment and Conservation Economics Section, Policy and Science Division, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Australia Reports on regional socio-economic impacts and total economic valuation of marine park projects 07/ /2006 Associate Lecturer School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia Lecturer, tutor and tutorial administrator in quantitative methods, microeconomics and business economics (bachelor and master courses) 06/ /1999 Data Operator SICPA SA, Lausanne, Switzerland Data entry, analysis and database maintenance 10/ /1999 Field guide Namib Rand Nature Reserve, Namibia Safari tour-guiding, ranger and hospitality duties 12/ /2008 Professional Ski Teacher (level 3) Ecole Suisse de Ski et de Snowboard, Grimentz, Switzerland Private and group ski and snowboard lessons, all levels CONSULTANCIES 2002 TRAFFIC Oceania/WWF South Pacific, Australia Economic and value chain analysis of the Eaglewood trade in Papua New Guinea, including field research and stakeholder interviews 2008 German Technical Assistance (formerly GTZ, now GIZ) The impacts of biofuel production on food prices a meta-analysis report 2016 The Global Water Partnership Organization The benefits of action / costs of inaction for drought preparedness - literature review and gap analysis, agenda for expert meeting, presentation and synthesis of discussions LANGUAGES French English German Native speaker Fluent (oral and written) Working knowledge (oral and written) MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMITTEES European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (member since 2011) International Association of Agricultural Economists (member since 2014) Memb er, Committee on Inclusiveness, Green Growth Knowledge Platform (since October 2015) African Association of Agricultural Economists (member since 2016) Member, Working Group Ending Hunger and Sustainable Agriculture, Think20 Dialogue, G20 Germany 2017 (since December 2016) Page 3 of 6

4 PROJECTS 06/ PRO-ACT: Fostering Smallholder Agriculture in Sierra Leone Cooperation with WelthungerhIlfe e.v., under funding provided by DG DEVCO through the EU deligation to Sierra Leone Own budget: EUR Staff: 3 International partners: 3 Project duration: 36 months Research countries: Sierra Leone Role: project manager and lead research for the economics of WASH behavior and nutrition outcomes 10/ Research and capacity-building for inter-sectorial soil rehabilitation Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the International Water Management Institute Own budget: EUR Staff: 3 International partners: 4 Project duration: 36 months Research countries: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal Role: research on the enabling environment for private investment in resource recovery and reuse of fecal sludge in South Asia, zef project manager 02/ /2017 FOODSECURE - Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security Funded by the European Commission FP7 program Own budget: EUR 1.48 millions Staff: 7 International partners: 17 Project duration: 60 months Research countries: Ethiopia, India, and global Role: lead researcher on the impacts and determinants of innovations for food and nutrition security; leader of several multi-partner work packages and manager of the ZEF team; co-leader for the dissemination activities of the project consortium 04/ /2017 ProINTENSAFRICA - Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa Funded by the European Commission H2020 program Own budget: EUR Staff: 3 International partners: 22 Project duration: 24 months Research country: Ethiopia Role: project manager for the ZEF team 05/ /2016 WATSAN-AGRICULTURE - Guiding pro-poor investments in the nexus among domestic water quality and quantity, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture from the bottom-up Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Total budget: USD 1.04 millions Staff: 7 International partners: 4 Research countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Bangladesh, India Role: project manager (ZEF team and the international partners), co-author of research reports and publications Page 4 of 6

5 04/ /2011 ELD - The economics of desertification, land degradation and drought: Towards an integrated global assessment Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, D.C.) Own budget: EUR Staff: 6 International partners: 1 Research countries: global Role: second lead author of the project publication, project manager of the ZEF team, liaison with the project coordinators at IFPRI PUBLICATIONS Books Nkonya, E., Gerber, N., Baumgartner, P., von Braun, J., De Pinto, A., Graw, V., Kato, E., Kloos, J. and Walter, T. (2011). The Economics of Land Degradation: Toward an integrated global assessment. Development and Economic Policy Series, No 66, Heidhues, F., J. von Braun and M. Zeller (Eds), Peter Land GmbH. Gerber, N., Biodiversity measurement, species interactions and sustainability. Doctoral thesis, UNSW, Refereed Journal Articles Mekonnen, D.A., Gerber, N. and Matz, J.A. (forthcoming). Gendered social networks, agricultural innovations and farm productivity in Ethiopia. World Development, DOI /j.worlddev Narayanan, S. and Gerber, N. (2017). Social Safety Nets for Food and Nutrition Security in India, Global Food Security, DOI /j.gfs Mekonnen, D.A., Gerber, N. (2017). Aspirations and food security in rural Ethiopia. Food Security 9(2): Gerber, N. and Bhaduri, A. (2017). Producers well-being and natural resource extraction - the Eaglewood trade in Papua New Guinea. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 46(1): Kuusaana, E.D. and Gerber, N. (2015). Institutional Synergies in Customary Land Markets Selected Case Studies of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) in Ghana. Land 4: Gerber, N. (2011). Biodiversity measures based on species-level dissimilarities: a methodology for assessment. Ecological Economics 70: Book Chapters Pangaribowo, E.H. and Gerber, N. (2016). Innovations for food and nutrition security: impacts and trends, in Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development, edited by Franz W. Gatzweiler and Joachim von Braun, Springer. Gerber, N., Nkonya, E. and von Braun, J. (2013). Land Degradation, Poverty and Marginality, in Marginality Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology, edited by Joachim von Braun and Franz Gatzweiler, Springer. Gerber, N. and Sommer, J.H. (2012). Biological indicators genetic, in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 6 - Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability, edited by Ian Spellerberg et al., Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, USA. von Braun, J. and Gerber, N. (2012). The economics of land and soil degradation: toward an assessment of the costs of inaction, in Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle, edited by Rattan Lal et al., Springer, Heidelberg. Discussion and Working Papers Sakketa, T.G., and Gerber, N., Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from Farm Panel Data, ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 236. Gerber, N. and Mirzabaev, A., Benefits of action and costs of inaction: Drought mitigation and preparedness a literature review, Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) Working Page 5 of 6

6 Paper 1. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland and Global Water Partnership (GWP), Stockholm, Sweden. Usman, M.A., Gerber, N. and von Braun, J., The Impact of Drinking Water Quality and Sanitation Behavior on Child Health: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia, ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 221. Usman, M.A., Gerber, N. and Pangaribowo, E.H., Determinants of Household Drinking Water Quality in Rural Ethiopia, ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 220. Vangani, R., Saxena, D., Gerber, N., Mavalankar, D. and von Braun, J., Impact of different irrigation systems on water quality in peri-urban areas of Gujarat, India, ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 219. Hasan, M.M. and Gerber, N., The impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health in rural households of north-western Bangladesh - a quasi-experimental analysis. ZEF Discussion Papers 217. Mekonnen, D.A. and Gerber, N., The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 214. Malek, M.A., Khan, T.N., Gerber, N., Saha, R. and Mohammad, I., Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference? Experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts. ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 213. Mekonnen, D.A., Gerber, N. and Matz, J.A., Social networks, agricultural innovations and farm productivity in Ethiopia. Working Paper Series No. 235, African Development Bank Group. Mekonnen, D.A. and Gerber, N., Aspirations and income, food security and subjective wellbeing in rural Ethiopia. ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy 212. Narayanan, S. and Gerber, N., Social Safety Nets for Food and Nutritional Security in India, ZEF Working Paper 146. Pieters, H., Gerber, N. and Mekonnen, D.A., "Country typology on the basis of FNS. A typology of countries based on FNS outcomes and their agricultural, economic, political, innovation and infrastructure national profiles", FOODSECURE Technical papers 2, LEI Wageningen UR. von Braun, J., Gerber, N., Mirzabaev, A. and Nkonya, E., The Economics of Land Degradation, ZEF Working Paper 109, Pangaribowo, E.H., Gerber, N. and Tillie, P., "Assessing the FNS impacts of technological and institutional innovations and future innovation trends," FOODSECURE Working Paper 11, LEI Wageningen UR. Pangaribowo, E. H., Gerber, N. and Torero, M., Food and Nutrition Security Indicators: a review, ZEF Working Paper 108. Pieters, H., Vandeplas, A., Guariso, A., Francken, N., Sarris, A., Swinnen, J., Gerber, N., von Braun, J. and Torero, M., "Perspectives on relevant concepts related to food and nutrition security," FOODSECURE Working Paper 1, LEI Wageningen UR. Nkonya, E., Gerber, N., Baumgartner, P., von Braun, J., De Pinto, A., Graw, V., Kato, E., Kloos, J. and Walter, T., "The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought: Toward an integrated global assessment," IFPRI discussion papers 1086, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Salam Lodhi, A., Tsegai, D. and Gerber, N., Determinants of participation in child s education and alternative activities in Pakistan, ZEF- Discussion Papers On Development Policy No. 159, Gerber, N., van Eckert, M. and Breuer, T., The Impacts of Biofuel Production on Food Prices: a review. ZEF Discussion Papers On Development Policy No. 127, Gerber, N., Bioenergy and Rural Development in Developing Countries: a review of existing studies. ZEF Discussion Papers On Development Policy No. 122, A full list of publications, including Discussion Papers and Working Papers, is available on request or on and Bonn, 06/07/2017. Page 6 of 6