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Professor Frank Fischer
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Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Political Sociology. (Research Project: Expertise im Nexus, 2015-2017); Senior Research Scholar. Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, F ood Policy Group 2018-.
Non-Residential Research Scholar, School of Public Policy, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Research Scholar, Potsdam, Germany, 2018-2020
Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Political Sociology. Research Project: Expertise im Nexus, 2015-2017; Senior research scholar, Food Democracy, Project, Department of Agricultural Politics and Food Policy, 2018-.
Visiting Guest Professor, New York University, Steinhardt School, 2014-2017.
Senior Faculty Fellow, Program in Politics and Globalization, University of Kassel, Kassel Germany, 2005-
Affiliated Faculty, E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Rutgers Climate Institute,
Rutgers University, New Jersey USA
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Policy Research, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 2012-2017.
Critical Policy Studies journal: Co-Founding Editor and co-editor of the Forum
Co-editor of Advancing Critical Policy Studies Book Series, Edward Elgar Publisher.
Editor, Research Handbook Series on Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publisher
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Public Policy Association
Member of Editorial Group, Forum, Journal of Comparative Public Policy Analysis
Awards
Professor Fischer has won a number of academic awards, including the Harold Lasswell prize for scholarly contributions to the field of public policy studies, and the Aaron Wildavsky American Political Science Award for Policy Studies. He has also won several book awards, including a Policy Studies Organization book award for Confronting Values Policy Analysis co-edited with John Forester and an Interpretive Methods Charles Taylor book award for The Argumentative Turn Revisited, co-edited with Herbert Gottweis. He also received several teaching awards at Rutgers University
Academic Specialities
Global and comparative environmental policy and politics, American and German politics, global political affairs (including US foreign policy),economic policymaking, science, technology and public policy, food governance and public policy analysis.
Email: ffischer@gmx.com