Dr. Camilla Bausch
Dr. Camilla Bausch works in the Senior Management and as Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute. Her responsibilities include strategic planning and personnel development.
With respect to her research work, she is involved in projects dealing with the negotiations on the future UN climate regime after 2012, emissions trading, and the improvement of the legal framework for the energy sector. Trained as a lawyer, she has a strong background in legal and institutional analysis, complemented by several years of experience working in interdisciplinary and international settings. She is a German native speaker, works in English at a native-speaker level and has advanced knowledge of Russian and French.
Dr Camilla Bausch is Associate Editor of the journal "CCLR - Carbon & Climate Law Review", a quarterly journal on climate regulation and the carbon market.
In 2008 and 2009 Dr. Camilla Bausch took a sabbatical to work for Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) in the US House of Representatives. There she worked on climate and energy policies, and contributed to the "Waxman-Markey-Bill" (American Clean Energy and Security Act), which passed the House of Representatives in June 2009.
Before her employment at Ecologic Institute, she was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the leading consulting firms worldwide. During the course of her studies, Dr Camilla Bausch worked at the Institute for International and European Legal Cooperation (Rechtsinstitut für internationale und europäische Zusammenarbeit, RIZ) with Prof. Dr. Stern and for the law firm Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). Furthermore, she was Stagaire at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission (EC), where she worked mainly on legal questions regarding the transformation of the electricity market.
Dr Camilla Bausch received a PhD in law from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), after writing her thesis on grid access regulations in the liberalised electricity market of the European Union (EU) with Prof. Dr. Schwintowski. Her doctoral thesis was funded by the Deutschen Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). She studied law at the University of Cologne (Germany) and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), and her studies were supported by a grant from the German National Academic Foundation.
Dr Camilla Bausch holds a diploma as a Russian teacher and has lived abroad for extended periods of time in Belgium, the US and Russia.