Education

• Ph.D. Agricultural Economic “cum laude”, University Bonn
• M.Sc. Political Science and Economics, Universities Tübingen and Hamburg

Professional experience

• since 10/2013 Full Professor (W3) and Head of Chair, TU München
• 2011-2013 Professor, Endowed Chair, CAU Kiel
• 2009-2011 Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics und Research Theme Leader, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
• 2007-2009 Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Department of Economics und Center for European Agri-Environmental Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury
• 2005-2007 Assistant/Associate Professor, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2004-2005 Senior Researcher, Center for Development Research, Bonn
• 2000-2004 Consultant/Senior Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf and Hamburg

Research areas

• Production, efficiency and organizational analysis
• Technology adaption and sustainable innovation
• Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level
• Risk analysis
• Economics of water resources and biodiversity
• Microeconometric modelling

Teaching activities

• Production theory and accounting
• Production and risk management
• Production economics and management

Research projects

• Dynamics of productivity growth in the OECD dairy sectors (Staff Loan, OECD, Paris)
• Technological change and scale
• Extreme events and farm behaviour
• Agri-environmental behaviour at farm level

Activities and awards

• Since 2015: Member Steering Committee Hans Eisenmann Zentrum, TUM
• Since 2015: Member Steering Committee TUM Water Cluster
• 2010-2014, 2015-2019 UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC), Peer Review College Member

Key publications

Kountouris, Y., Nakic, Z., Sauer, J. “Political instability and non-market valuation: Evidence from Croatia”. Resource and Energy Economics. 2015, 41: 19-39.

Kountouris, Y., Godyn, I., Sauer, J. “Non-market valuation supporting water management: the case study in Czestochowa, Poland”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions. 2014, 11(7): 7169-7188.

Newbery, R., Sauer, J., Gorton, M., Phillipson, J., Atterton, J. “Determinants of the Performance of Business Associations in Rural Settlements in the United Kingdom: An Analysis of Members' Satisfaction and Willingness-to-Pay for Association Survival”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2013, 45(4): 967-985.

Al-Assa'd, T., Sauer, J. “The performance of water utilities in Jordan.” Water Science and Technology. 2010, 62(4): 803-808.

Seebens, H., Sauer, J. “Bargaining power and efficiency - rural households in Ethiopia”. Journal of International Development. 2007, 19(7): 895-918.