JAN HORST KEPPLER

Born:     Hamburg, 26 December 1961

Nationality:     German                 

Civil Status:      Married, one child

Tel.:    01 42 30 84 80

Port.:  06 77 81 37 46

Email: jan-horst.keppler@dauphine.fr

 

EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS

      UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY – MONTPELLIER (2002)

• Professor of economics after national examination (“agrégation”)

      UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES-SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES (2000)

• Habilitation in economics

      THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Department of Economics, Baltimore, MD (1987-1990)

• M.A. and Ph.D. in economics

      Thesis: Monopolistic Competition Theory 1926-1941 (Director, Peter Newman)

      BOLOGNA CENTRE of the JHU School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), (1986-1987)

• Diploma in international relations and economics

      UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, DAMS (1984-85)

• Studies in semiotics (U. Eco), mass communication and urbanism

      FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, Department of Comparative Literature (1982-84, 1985-86)

• M.A. in comparative literature and history

      Thesis: Diderot’s Jacques le Fataliste and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy as open works of art

 

CURRENT POSITION

UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-DAUPHINE (since 9/2004)

Full Professor of Economics

Director of Chair European Electricity Markets (CEEM) with work on electricity market design for investment in low carbon electricity markets, flexibility management and infrastructure investment

Director of the Masters programme « Energy, Finance, Carbon » (Master 129)

OECD NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY (since 2/2009)

Senior Economic Advisor in the Nuclear Development Division, research and project management in economics of nuclear power in low carbon electricity systems, carbon pricing, system effects, coordination with IEA on joint projects, COP21 coordination.

Other key responsibilities

• Senior Researcher at CGEMP on electricity markets, carbon markets and energy economics
• Senior Researcher at PHARE, Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne on theories of competition
• Coordinator of undergraduate teaching in Industrial Economics
• Teachings Environmental Economics, Energy and Industrial Economics and History of Thought
• Member of the Exchange Council of EPEX Spot, the European power exchange
• Technical work for Low Carbon 100 (low carbon stock market index by NYSE Euronext)

• Director « European Governance and Geopolitics of Energy », Ifri, (2006-2008).

 

FORMER POSITIONS

UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY – MONTPELLIER III (2002-2004)

Professor of economics

• Teaching Industrial economics, History of economic thought and Natural resource economics
• Senior Researcher, GRESE, University Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne

 

UNIVERSITÉ DE VERSAILLES SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES (2001-2002)

Full-time Associate Professor in economics

• Teaching in Industrial Economics, Energy and Natural Resource Economics
• Researcher at the C3ED, delegate to the European CATEP programme on emissions trading

 

OECD and INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY (IEA), PARIS (1994-2001)

Principal economist

• IEA Economic Analysis Division and Energy and Environment Division
• OECD Environment Directorate, Economics Division
• Research in energy economics, energy subsidies and market reform, energy efficiency, emissions trading, biodiversity, energy and environment, sustainable development
• Numerous publications, secretary for two OECD bodies, oversight of consultants

 

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT STIFTUNG, Bonn and Washington, D.C. (1991-1994)

Director of North American Office

• Creation of American subsidiary of worldwide organisation for scientific exchange
• Implementation of high-level projects for international scientific collaboration

 

PROGNOS (European Centre of Applied Economics), Basel (CH), (1990-1991)

Economist

• Development of conceptual framework for major study on energy externalities funded by German Ministry of Economics (BMWi)
• Responsibility for the coordination of sub-contractors

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS

Fellowship of the JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY                                                              1988-90

Fellowship of the JHU BOLOGNA-SAIS CENTRE                                                               1987-88

Fellowship of the DEUTSCHE AKADEMISCHE AUSTAUSCHDIENST                                              1984-85

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

German:                                           Native

English, French and Italian:          Fluent

Spanish:                                            Reading knowledge