Georg Winkel

Georg Winkel is Professor (full) and Chair of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He holds an MSc (Forest Sciences, 2000) and a PhD (Forest and Environmental Policy, 2006) from University of Freiburg, Germany. Previously he has been working at the University of Freiburg (2006-2015) and EFI HQ in Joensuu (2015-2107) and EFI Bonn (2017-2021). Next to working for EFI, since 2018, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn, and he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Germany (2017-2021).

 His main research interest relates to understanding how societies shape forests and nature and vice versa, and how this translates in forest and nature conservation policy and governance. He has been working with a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological approaches (ranging from power-knowledge-discourse to “belief/interest” based policy analysis) to understand forest and conservation policy making and implementation, and forest related social and environmental conflicts, at different scales and in different contexts. He has acquired and coordinated both large scale international research consortia (including two EU Horizon 2020 projects he has been coordinating at EFI) and smaller-scale fundamental research projects.