- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-FLORES
- OFFICE:
- UNU-FLORES, Ammonstrasse 74, Dresden, 01067, Germany
- E-MAIL:
- guenther@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +49 351 8921 9370
- NATIONALITY:
- German
Research Interests
- Environmental and resource economics
- Environmental Assessment
- Environmental Resource Management
- Urban environmental management
Education
- PhD, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Augsburg, Germany (1993)
- Dipl. -Kffr./Business Graduate in Auditing/Controlling, Financial Economics, Mathematical Methods, University of Augsburg, Germany (1989)
Appointments
- UNU Focal Point for the Environmental Management Group (EMG)
- Founder and Head of the Center for Sustainability Assessment and Policy PRISMA
- Chair for Business Administration, Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting at TU Dresden
Biographical Statement
Prof. Edeltraud Guenther is the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) in Dresden, Germany. An internationally recognised expert in environmental management and sustainability assessment, Prof. Guenther took over the leadership of UNU-FLORES on 1 September 2018. Her research focuses on environmental management, accounting, and economics with a focus on corporate responsibility, corporate carbon and climate accounting, life cycle assessment, and sustainable corporate governance.