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Junior Development Economist

Benjamin Y. Koch

Doctoral Researcher
Ruhr University Bochum
Ruhr Graduate School in Economics

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My

Interests

Development
  1. Humanitarian & spatial economics
  2. Conflicts & risks
  3. Food assistance, access to water, & emergency relief
  4. Foreign affairs, diplomacy, & geopolitics
  5. UN, OSCE, NATO, & EU
  6. SSA, LAC, CHL, USA, DEU, NRW, & the Ruhrgebiet
Benjamin Y. Koch portrait picture

Experience

2024–present

RUB

Bochum, DEU
Research Associate

Graduate Assistant
Ruhr University Bochum
Chair of International Economics
(Prof. Dr. Matthias Busse)
wiwi.rub.de

Education

2024–present

Humanitarian Economics

Bochum, DEU
Ruhr University Bochum
Doctoral studies
Dissertation advisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Busse
wiwi.rub.de

Qualifications

Certificates

EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Certificate. 2024. EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (FRS, IISS, SIPRI, PRIF). Paris, FRA (remote). Course on arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament of both conventional and unconventional weapons with special attention to the EU agenda. nonproliferation.eu

Languages

native
German
C1
English
B2
Spanish
Latinum Certificate
Latin

Skills

Data analysis
  1. R
  2. Stata
  3. Julia
  4. MATLAB/Dynare
  5. SQL
  6. Alteryx
  7. Power BI

Volunteering

2023–present
UNICEF Dortmund Student Group
Volunteer
2010–present
Brambauer Lutheran Church
IT, volunteer
2017
Model United Nations (MUIMUN)
Participant
2015
Lebenshilfe Dortmund
Summer camp volunteer for persons with disabilities

Activities

  1. Guitar
  2. Lacrossse
  3. Traveling
Entered

Memberships

DAG
Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft
(German Atlantic Association)
ata-dag.de
DGVN
Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen
(United Nations Association of Germany)
dgvn.de

Publications

Manuscripts in preparation

Article in preparation. Andor, M. A., Hoenow, N. C., & Koch, B. Y. European citizens’ perceptions of the energy transition and policies: Evidence based on a large-scale survey from 2021. Manuscript in preparation.

Entries in reference works

Dictionary of ecological economics, 2023. Andor, M. A., Koch, B. Y., & Matejko, L. (2023). Energy conservation. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of ecological economics: Terms for the new millennium (p. 185). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.E.92
Dictionary of ecological economics, 2023. Andor, M. A., Koch, B. Y., & Matejko, L. (2023). Natural disaster. In B. M. Haddad & B. D. Solomon (Eds.), Dictionary of ecological economics: Terms for the new millennium (p. 367). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974912.N.9

Reports and gray literature

NEWCOMERS Deliverable 6.3, 2022. Andor, M. A., Blasch, J., Cordes, O., Hoenow, N. C., Karki, K., Koch, B. Y., Micke, K., Niehues, D., & Tomberg, L. (2022). Report on cross-country citizen survey (Deliverable 6.3, Version 2.0). The NEWCOMERS consortium.

Teaching

2024–present. Supervision of several bachelor's theses. Ruhr University Bochum.
2024–2025. Scientific Methods. Ruhr University Bochum.

Presentations

Economics

2023. Perceptions of the energy transition and policies. Workshop. RWI Essen.

International

2021. Chile: A changing country. Lecture series by the Expert Committee on European Affairs. Federal Association of German Economists (bdvb).
Received

Honors

TU Dortmund University
TMC award for the best master's thesis at the Department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University 2023/2024
DAAD
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(German Academic Exchange Service)
Internship scholarship
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Study scholarship
bdvb
Bundesverband Deutscher Volks- und Betriebswirte
(Federal Association of German Economists)
Aktivit fellowship