Georgeta AuktorInternational Advisor - Bonn

- Industrial development
- Energy policy
- Innovation systems
- Science and technology policy
- Sustainability transitions
- PhD, International Development and Regional Planning, with honors, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MA, with honors, University of Massachusetts Boston
- BA, West University of Timisoara
Georgeta Auktor is an international development policy advisor, researcher, and educator. Her areas of expertise include: private sector development, energy policy, innovation systems and policy, technology and science policy, especially as they relate to the process of transition to a low-carbon economy in the developing and emerging economies. Since 2011 she is a researcher at the German Development Institute, a development policy think-tank based in Bonn, Germany. From 2014 through 2017 she also taught at the Institute of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before 2011, she worked as an assistant professor at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. She holds a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in international development and regional planning, Master’s degrees in urban planning (from MIT) and in applied sociology (from University of Massachusetts Boston), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from West University of Timisoara.