Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Director Emeritus of Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany, and Chairman (pro bono) of Ecologic Institute US in Washington DC, is currently non-executive Director of the Fundação Oceano Azul in Lisboa (Portugal), Chairman of Agora Energiewende in Berlin, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of German Studies at Duke University as well as teaching faculty at the EADA Business School in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain. He is also Initiator and Convenor of the Arctic Summer College. His research focuses on the role and functions of science-based policy institutes or “think tanks” in theory and the practice in different political systems, the interactions among policy domains and international relations, and global governance on environment, resources, climate and energy.