Katharina Molitor

Research programme: Environmental Governance

Function: Advisor to the Director / WBGU

Specialization: Geography

Work areas:

  • Smallholder Agriculture and Agrarian Livelihoods in the Global South
  • Food and Nutrition security
  • Agro-food Networks
  • Value Chains
  • Critical Studies of Markets and Marketization
  • Practice Theories


Vita

since 5/2021 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
(until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
Advisor to the Director / German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)
since 2016 Universität zu Köln
PhD candidate, Graduate School of Geosciences, Institute of Geography (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Boris Braun, University of Cologne; Prof. Dr. Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney)
8/2017–10/2017 University of Sydney, Australien
PhD visiting scholar
3/2017–4/2017 University of Rajshahi, Bangladesch
PhD visiting scholar
7/2016–11/2016 AGIAMONDO e.V.
Freelancer in the field of Capacity Development
1/2016–3/2017 University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Research Assistant,  (a.o. university teaching: seminar "New Approaches and Models in Economic Geography", preparatory seminar for the excursion to Ghana)
2015/16 University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Teaching assignment "Opportunities and Challenges in the Global South"
6/2015–10/2015 Graduate School of Geosciences, Universität zu Köln
Scholarship holder "Start-up Honours Grant“
5/2015    Engagement Global gGmbH
Seminar assistant sustainable management ("Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften")
10/2011–4/2015 University of Cologne
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geography, (minor subjects: Anthropology)
3/2015 Engagement Global gGmbH
seminar leader, follow-up seminar "ASApreneurs"
10/2014–11/2014 University of Rajshahi, Bangladesch
Visiting scholar, DAAD Promos
11/2013–12/2014 AGIAMONDO e.V.
freelancer in the field of Capacity Development
11/2013 Engagement Global gGmbH
Seminar assistant "fair trade - fair procurement“
1/2013–7/2013    Academy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Student assistant for Capacity Development

10/2009–3/2015

University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
Research assistant, a.o. DFG-funded research project: "Städtische Umweltqualität als Ergebnis von Aushandlungsprozessen - industrielle Unternehmen als Akteure in der Umwelt-Governance in Indien"; DFG-funded research project: "Ressourceneffizientes Bauen in regionalen Strategien für Nachhaltigkeit: Multiakteurs-Governance und innovative Bautechnologien in Australien, Kanada und Europa (GreenRegio)",Tutor for Urbanisation and the Economic Development (2 semesters long), Tutor for Statistics and mathematical methods (7 semesters long)
10/2008-9/2011

University of Cologne
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geography, (minor subjects: Anthropology, Macroeconomics)

Refereed Publications

Non-refereed Publications

  • Strupat, Christoph / Liz Grant / Maike Voss / Katharina Molitor / Sophie Gepp / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Saravanan Subramanian / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
    Global transformation towards planetary health
    in: T7 Task Force Global Health, 30.03.2022

Opinion Pieces

Projects