What is pluralist and heterodox economics? (Prof. Dr. Robert Lepenies)

Robert Lepenies works on the politics of nudging & on themes in the philosophy of the social sciences (economics), environmental policy (such as water governance), international political economy and the role of (social) sciences in society. He is active at the science-policy interface and has been invited expert, committee member or reviewer for various science organizations such as the International Science Council, Future Earth or the InteracademyPartnership or the EU Joint Research Center (JRC). He is an enthusiastic teacher of all things related to PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics).

He has held post-doctoral positions at the European University Institute (Max Weber Fellowship) and at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB; Center for Global Constitutionalism). He held visiting studentships and fellowships at Yale University (Fulbright-Schuman Grant) and the FU Berlin. He taught politics at the ESCP Europe Business School Berlin and history of economic thought at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin in the MPP program, as well as a seminar in moral philosophy at the FU Berlin (Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata and KFG The Transformative Power of Europe). Robert received the inaugural WIWA Young Scholars Award for Pluralism in Economics (2015), as well as the Mulert German Fulbright Association Award for Mutual Understanding (2016) and the A.SK Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Award (2016) and was a research scientist at the UFZ in the department of environmental politics.

He was the project manager of Global Colleagues (now concluded). He has three young kids.