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Future Development Economist

Benjamin Y. Koch

Graduate Assistant
Ruhr University Bochum

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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
Graduate Assistant, Chair of International Economics
(Prof. Dr. Matthias Busse)
Ruhr University Bochum
wiwi.rub.de
  1. international trade
  2. capital flows

Education

as of 2024

Doctoral studies

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

Qualifications

Languages

native
German
C1
English
B2
Spanish
Latinum Certificate
Latin

Skills

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

bdvb
Bundesverband Deutscher Volks- und Betriebswirte
(Federal Association of German Economists)
Expert Committee on European Affairs
bdvb.de
DAG
Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft
(German Atlantic Association)
ata-dag.de
DGVN
Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen
(United Nations Association of Germany)
dgvn.de
Found

In public

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

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

DAAD
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
(German Academic Exchange Service)
Internship scholarship
SDV
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Study scholarship
bdvb
Bundesverband Deutscher Volks- und Betriebswirte
(Federal Association of German Economists)
Aktivit fellowship