Year of birth

1980

Nationality

German

Language skills

German – native speaker

English  – very good

French  –  basic

Countries worked in

Germany, Kenya, Belgium, Croatia

Positions and functions

Member of agri benchmark Cash Crop Team

Permanent position at the vTI Institute of Farm Economics

PhD student

Education

M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany

Contact

Phone: + 49-531-596-5508

E-Mail:

kathrin.strohm@vti.bund.de

Publications

List of Publications »

 
Professional experience
(Descending chronological order)

since 02/2009–today
Scientific researcher (Economics of renewable resources) at the vTI-Institute of Farm Economics, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) Braunschweig, Germany

04/2007 – 12/2008
Junior Consultant with GFA Consulting Group, Hamburg; Department for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus:
Acquisition of new projects funded by EU, GTZ, KfW etc.; recruitment of project personnel, project management and reporting

10/2006 – 02/2007
Internship with the European Commission, Brussels; Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Department for ACP countries, South Africa, FAO and Food Aid:
Research about sugar SWAP activities in the framework of the EPA negotiations between EU and ACP countries

09/2005 – 01/2006
Internship with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Nairobi, Kenya in the project „Private Sector Development in Agriculture“:
Study “Contract farming in Kenya: Theory, evidence from selected value chains and implications for development cooperation”