Christine Grüning

at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Biography

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Senior Project Manager for Executive Education and E-Learning

Dr. Christine Grüning delivers a strong interdisciplinary background in environmental economics, finance and policy. Since 2011 she is managing and implementing applied research, education and capacity building projects for the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance.

In her role as senior project manager she focus on the development of executive trainings programme, where she combines her applied research on policy-relevant topics in climate finance and policy with an orientation towards practical application and final implementation. Her current fields of research are the economics of climate change, barriers on investment in mitigation and adaptation finance, market imperfections, and results-based climate finance, which are also feeding into the training programs and executive education offers at Frankfurt School; the concept development and implementation of the Certified Expert of Climate Adaptation Finance, Certified Expert of Climate & Renewable Energy Finance and the Adaptation Finance Fellowship Programme (AFFP) as well as the annual Climate and Sustainable Finance Summer Academies (CSEF).

Between 1999 and 2004, she studied International Business Administration at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). She holds a Bachelor Degree in Financial Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and a Maestria de Dirección de Empresas (MBA) from the Universidad Católica de Códoba (Argentina). Subsequently she joined the Chair of Public Finance and Environmental Economics at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and received a doctoral degree in 2010.

Dr. Grüning has further been crucial for the success of the annual report “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Finance”, which is published by Frankfurt School UNEP-Centre in cooperation with Bloomberg New Energy Finance and UN Environment over the last 13 years.

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