Ottmar Edenhofer is Professor of the Economics of Climate Change (appointment together with the Michael-Otto-Stiftung) at the Technical University Berlin and Co-Chair of the working group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is deputydirector and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and is currently leading Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions at PIK, which focuses on the research on the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation.

Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer (born 1961 in Bavaria) studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Munich and holds a Diploma in Economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Prädikatsexamen) and a BA in Philosophy. During his studies he founded his own enterprise, and between 1991 and 1993 led a humanitarian aid organisation in Bosnia. He worked as a research assistant at the Technical University Darmstadt and completed his PhD in Economics in 1999. He accepted his current professorship at the TU Berlin in 2008. His research interests are the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis, Sustainability Theory, Economic Growth Theory, Environmental Economics, Welfare Theory and General Intertemporal Equilibrium Theory.