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Education

1993 Masters degree in mathematics and economics (Cand. scient. Oecon)

1999 Ph.D. in Environmental Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Economics

Employment

1994 - 1997 Ph.D. student at the university of South Jutland, Esbjerg

1997 - 2001 Researcher at Institute of Food and Resource Economics

2001-2012   Senior researcherat, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen

2012 -        Associate professor Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen

Research

My field is economic regulation and food economics. More specifically, my work includes 1) Economic analyses of the role of the public sector in optimal regulation of food production and consumption 2) Valuation of non-market goods (such as food safety and quality, animal welfare, environmental impacts) and assessing consumers’ trade offs between different types of risks 3) Optimal decision making for decision makers and consumers in complex settings including uncertainty, irreversibility and asymmetric information.

Teaching

2011- Animal in Society, Masters course, Animal Science Programme (course responsible together with Jesper Lassen)

2015 - Introduktion til Erhvervsøkonomi, Bachelor course, Animal Science Prorgramme (course responsible Søren Marcus Pedersen)

2016 - Animals and Sustainability, Masters course, Animal Science Programme på Husdyrvidenskabsuddannelsen (course responsible Hanne Helene Hansen)

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger

Keywords

  • ???Bakteriel fødevaresikkerhed???
  • Campylobacter
  • Consumers and food
  • Consumer conceptions and behaviour
  • ???Fødevareøkonomi???
  • ???Miljø og naturressourcer - økonomi og forvaltning???
  • ???Miljøøkonomi og -lovgivning???
  • Salmonella

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