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Dr Gerrit Hansen is a researcher and political advisor with outstanding expertise in the fields of climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation, international climate policy, green finance, renewable energy, regenerative land use and sustainable development. She holds a doctorate from Wageningen Universtiy in the Netherlands, a diploma in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, and a Master of Science degree in Global Change Management from the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (HNEE).Her climate career started at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 2010, as part of the science team for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Technical Support Unit's Special Report on Renewable Energy and Climate Change. She then moved on to a senior research position as Chapter Scientist for the IPCC Working Group II, concentrating on the detection and attribution of observed impacts of climate change. After a term as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, she finalized her PhD thesis at University of Wageningen, publishing her research in high ranking journals. As a senior advisor with the environmental and development NGO Germanwatch e.V. she worked with a network of international civil society, business groups, think tanks and philantropy supporting a transition to a zero-carbon society within the G20, with a special focus on financial markets and actors. As a science advisor at the German IPCC Coordination Office, she provided crucial support to the German Government during the finalization of the IPCC Special Reports on 1.5C global warming (2018), Climate Change and Land, and Oceans and the Cryosphere (both 2019). At the German Philantropy Robert Bosch Stiftung she was leading the team developing and implementing the foundations' new climate change strategy with a focus on a just transition in land use and the nexus between climate, biodiversity, food and inequality. In addition to her academic credentials, Gerrit has ample experience in project management and political strategy, both in international and grassroots contexts. She's an outstanding conceptual thinker, and has this rare ability to roll out the big picture while keeping track of the details, which makes her an exceptional facilitator and team leader. She also works freelance from time to time. It is her firm belief that global environmental challenges are intertwined with questions of equity and justice. The transformational change that's needed to address climate change will have to tackle both.

Listed skills include Sustainability, Data Analysis, Energy Policy, Mitigation, and 12 others.