Rainer Quitzow leads a research group on the Geopolitics of Transtions in Energy and Industry at the Research Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, and he is Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on sustainable innovation and industrial policy and geopolitics of transitions in energy and industry. In particular, he analyses geoeconomic competition in emerging climate-friendly industries and the role of foreign and industrial policy strategies in this context. Before his career as a researcher, Rainer Quitzow worked in the field of international development with a focus on governance and environmental and trade policy. At the World Bank in Washington, D.C., he conducted governance and policy impact analyses for development programmes in Latin America and Africa.
