Peter Wehrheim

Wehrheim studied agricultural science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at Michigan State University (1986–1990). He received his doctorate from the University of Giessen/Germany in 1994 with his dissertation Economic effects on agriculture of EU membership of the EFTA Member States - a partial equilibrium analysis. After moving to the University of Bonn, he completed his habilitation in agricultural policy with the habilitation thesis: Modeling Russia's Economy in Transition 1998.

In 2001/2002 he took the temporary professorship for economic and agricultural policy at the University of Bonn. From 1994 to 2001 he worked at various research institutes (University of Kiel / Germany, University of Bonn / Germany; International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI / Washington) and worked as an independent consultant on development projects for the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the German Bank for Reconstruction (KfW).

Wehrheim began working for the European Commission in 2004 and was initially affiliated with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (until 2010). Before joining the Commission, he was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). During this time he worked as a Research Fellow (Team Leader Macro-economics and Trade) at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) / University of Bonn and the IRIS Center of the University of Maryland.[2][3]

From 2010 to 2018 he was Head of Unit for Land Use and Climate Finance in DG Climate Action. While working for Phil Hogan, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, he contributed to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy related to environment and climate aspects.

As a student he took part in a one year exchange program in the USA (California) organized by Youth for Understanding (YFU) for which he worked as a volunteer and was representative for the region of Hessen/Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. He was born and raised on the Wehrheim vinery in Birkweiler/Pfalz.

• Ökonomische Effekte und Beispiele von Deficiency Payments im Agrarsektor, Giessen Institute für Agrarpolitik und Marktforschung, 1991
• The integration of the EFTA member states Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria and Switzerland into the EC, Giessen Institute für Agrarpolitik und Marktforschung, 1993
• Ökonomische Effekte der EG-Integration der EFTA-Mitgliedstaaten Schweden, Finnland, Norwegen, Österreich und Schweiz im Agrarsektor, Münster : Lit-Verl., 1994
• Food security in transition countries, Bonn ZEF, 2003
• Continuity and change land and water use reforms in rural Uzbekistan : socio economic and legal analyses for the region Khorezm, IAMO, Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Halle 2008

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• Danube Strategy Baden-Württemberg
• Green Deal and Biodiversity in Europe