About Me

I teach international finance and strategy, management simulation games and corporate finance case studies at Technische Hochschule Köln, applied microeconomics at University of Luxembourg. Previously I taught graduate-level industrial organization and public economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and sponsored Master's level finance pro-seminar case studies at MIT Sloan School of Management.

I was a long-time investment banker and financial advisor to governments, state-owned and private companies and projects across Europe and Asia: on industry regulation, restructurings, financings and privatizations of national energy and resources companies in Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, S. Korea, Croatia; electric- and water utilities in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Germany & Austria; coal companies and clean energy technologies in Indonesia, Japan and China; banking, telecommunication, chemical, steel, industrial, mobility, retail and software sectors in Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, S. Korea, Germany. I was a strategy consultant, chemical engineer and chemist in Germany and the US, CEO of a Southeast Asian oil and gas company.

Thus my interest in SOE- and PPP financings and regulation; platform strategies, sustainability, business model innovation and M&A; industry regulation, energy-, infrastructure, environmental and R&D policy.

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EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

State-owned enterprises and public-private partnerships

Theoretical study of regulation and financing of energy- and infrastructure sectors using adverse selection and moral hazard models with government budget constraint and shadow costs of public funds

Decentralization and public finance

Empirical and theoretical studies of political and fiscal decentralization, its interaction with natural resource- and infrastructure policy and public finances

Energy-, natural resources- and infrastructure policy

Normative energy- and infrastructure policy, R&D and new energy technologies, environmental bargaining, market failures and special interest politics

1990 - 1992

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SM, Sloan School of Management

MSCEP, Chemical Engineering

1983 - 1989

Technical University of Berlin

Diplom Chemiker

2009 - 2013

Centre for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)

University of Luxembourg

PhD in Economics

Platform- innovation strategy

Platforms, technology and business models, innovation incentives and capabilities, sustainability and circular economy