Peter Wehrheim 2

Peter Wehrheim (born June 11, 1964 in Landau) is a German agricultural economist and Head of Unit for the “Bioeconomy and Food System” within the Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission in Brussels.^[1]

Life and work

Wehrheim studied agricultural science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at Michigan State University (1986–1990). He received his doctorate from the University of Giessen/Germany in 1994 with his dissertation Economic effects on agriculture of EU membership of the EFTA Member States - a partial equilibrium analysis. After moving to the University of Bonn, he completed his habilitation in agricultural policy with the habilitation thesis: Modeling Russia's Economy in Transition in 1998.

In 2001/2002 he took the temporary professorship for economic and agricultural policy at the University of Bonn. From 1994 to 2001 he worked at various research institutes (University of Kiel / Germany, University of Bonn / Germany; International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI / Washington) and worked as an independent consultant on development projects for the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the German Bank for Reconstruction (KfW).

Wehrheim began working for the European Commission in 2004 and was initially affiliated with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (until 2010). Before joining the Commission, he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). During this time he worked as a Research Fellow (Team Leader Macro-economics and Trade) at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) / University of Bonn and the IRIS Center of the University of Maryland.^[2]^[3]

From 2010 to 2018 he was Head of Unit for Land Use and Climate Finance in DG Climate Action. While working for Phil Hogan, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, he contributed to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy related to environment and climate aspects.

As a student he took part in a one year exchange program in the USA (California) organized by Youth for Understanding (YFU) for which he worked as a volunteer and was representative for the region of Hessen/Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. He was born and raised on the Wehrheim vinery in Birkweiler/Pfalz.

Selected publications

Books

Wehrheim (2003), An Economy-wide Model of Russia’s Economy in Transition. Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot, 200 pp.
Wehrheim, P., Frohberg, K., Serova, E., and J. von Braun (eds.) (2000), Russia’s Agro-food Sector: Towards Truly Functioning Markets. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London, 541 pp.
Cramon-Taubadel, P. Wehrheim, J. von Braun and U. Koester (1996), Assessing Coherence between the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU´s Development Policy: the Case of Cereals. Vauk Academic Publishers, Kiel.
Wehrheim, P., A. Schoeller-Schletter, and C. Martius (eds. 2008), Continuity and Change: Land and water use reforms in rural Uzbekistan. Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe. Leibniz Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa – IAMO. 203 pp. Halle/Saale.
Wehrheim, P. (1994), Economic Effects on Agriculture of EC Integration of the EFTA-Member States Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria and Switzerland – a Quantitative Analysis. LIT Verlag, Münster-Hamburg, Giessen.

Articles

Wehrheim, P. (2005), EU Enlargement and the EU' Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): Strategic Implications. In Brimmer E. and S. Fröhlich (eds.) The Strategic Implications of EU Enlargement, Johns Hopkins University
Wehrheim, P. E. Serova and J. von Braun (1999), Impact of Financial Crisis on Russia’s Agro-food Economy. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 26 (3): 349-370.
Boger S., M. Bronzel and P. Wehrheim (1999), Structures and Trends in Poland’s Food Industry (Strukturen und Tendenzen in Polens Ernährungsindustrie). Berichte über Landwirtschaft, 77 (2): 291-324.
Wehrheim, P. (1999), WTO-negotiating positions of large agricultural trading nations. Verhandlungspositionen der großen Agrarhandelsländer für die WTO-Millenium-Runde, DLG, Nr. 12.
Grote, U. and P. Wehrheim (1999), Transition Economies’ Perspective – Getting ready for the Millenium Round Trade Negotiations. Vision 2020, Focus 1, IFPRI Policy Brief, 5 of 9, Washington, D.C.
Wehrheim, P. (1996), The new agricultural policy of the USA puts pressure on the EU (Die neue Agrarpolitik der USA setzt die EU unter Zugzwang). Ernährungsdienst, Januar.
Wehrheim, P. (1993), Swedish EC Integration and its Impact on Agriculture. European Business and Economic Development, 1 (6): 19-25.

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[1] Peter Wehrheim auf Who is Who in Europa

[2] Peter Wehrheim in ZEF

[3] Peter Wehrheim in IRIS

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