Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, PhD, is Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel, Co-President of the Club of Rome.
Past positions have included Professor of Biology, Essen University (1972); President, Kassel University (1975); Director at UN Centre for Science and Technology for Development, New York (1981); Director, Institute for European Environmental Policy (1984); Founding President, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy (1991); Member of Parliament, Germany, and Chair of the Bundestag Environment Committee (1998-2005); and Dean, Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara, California (2006-2008).E
nglish books published include Ecological Tax Reform (1992), Earth Politics (1994), Factor Four (with A. and .H Lovins) (1997), Limits to Privatization (with O. Young and M. Finger) (2005), and Factor Five (with K. Hargroves et al) (2010). Factor Four, Limits to Privatization, and Factor Five were Reports to the Club of Rome.
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker was born in 1939, and is living in Emmendingen, Germany. His website is: www.ernst.weizsaecker.de.