Dr Petra Opitz
Senior Research Associate
As an energy expert, Dr Petra Opitz advises national and international companies and governments on regulatory issues as well as on energy efficiency, renewable energies, climate change and emissions trading. Petra Opitz has developed JI and CDM projects in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Brazil and Tunisia. Before joining DIW Econ, she was Head of International Cooperation at the German Energy Agency (dena). Petra Opitz holds a doctorate in economics and studied in Berlin and at the Institute for International and Foreign Economic Relations in Moscow.
