Folkhard Isermeyer

Date of birth

05 January 1958

Nationality

German

Marital status

Married, three daughters, one son

Language skills

German – native speaker

English – very good

Countries worked in

Germany, New Zealand, USA

Positions and functions

Leader of the vTI-Institute of Farm Economics

Honorary Professor at the University of Goettingen

Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council “Ag. Policy” of the German Ministry of Agriculture

President of the Umbrella Association of German Agricultural Research Organisations

Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Dairy Industry Association

Member of the German Oilseed and Protein Plant Association

Chief Editor of “FAL Agricultural research” and “Wissenschaft erleben”

Chairman of European Dairy Research Network EDF STAR (European Dairy Farmers)

Coordinator of the agri benchmark Project

Education

1988
PhD in Agricultural Economics
Thesis: International Competitiveness of Milk Production in New Zealand, North America, and the European Union

1982
Diploma in Agriculture
Thesis: Evolution of Agrarian Structure in Lower Saxony and Bavaria

Publications

List of Publications »

Professional experience
(Descending chronological order)
 

since 2008–today
Leader of the vTI-Institute of Farm Economics,
Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries,
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) Braunschweig, Germany

1990–2007
Leader of the FAL-Institute of Farm Economics,
Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) Braunschweig, Germany

1999-2003
Leader of the FAL-Institute of Farm Economics and Rural Studies

1998-1999
President of FAL

1996
Founder of the International Farm Comparison Network IFCN, the predecessor of agri benchmark (together with Torsten Hemme and Claus Deblitz)

1990
Founder of the European Dairy Farmers (together with the German Agricultural Society, DLG)

1982-1990
Research Assistant at the Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany