Profile
Jörg Ankel-Peters co-heads the research department “Climate and Development Policy”
at RWI and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Passau. His
research focuses on meta-science, environmental economics, and
development economics. Jörg has conducted numerous studies in the Global
South on infrastructure roll-out, technology adoption, and energy
policies. He also leads several meta-scientific projects studying the
evidence generation process in economics and he participates in big team
science initiatives. Methodologically, Jörg has used both randomized
and non-randomized evaluation designs, systematic reviews, replications,
scientometrics, and qualitative methods. He has worked extensively in
the field, mainly in West Africa, Indonesia, and Rwanda, but also with
governments in the capitals, collecting data and experience.
Jörg’s work has been covered in media outlets such as The Economist, The
Conversation, and Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die
Zeit. He has advised several international organizations like the World
Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the International
Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).
Jörg is co-director of the Institute for Replication (I4R) and co-edits the I4R Discussion Paper Series. He is Associate Editor at World Development Perspectives and Q Open,
a member of the German Economic Association’s Group on Development
Economics, as well as a research associate at the Environment for
Development (EfD) network at the University of Gothenburg and the Energy
Access Project at Duke University.
Jörg studied economics and
statistics in Cologne and Paris and holds a PhD from Ruhr-University
Bochum. His research findings have been published in leading journals,
including the European Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Nature Climate Change, and the World Bank Research Observer.