Julia Hertin is Secretary-General of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. She has been with the Council in different positions since 2009 with the exception of 2012-13 when she worked on the energy transition in the German Federal Environmental Ministry. Before that, Julia has been working for ten years in environmental research in the UK (SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex) and Germany (Research Centre for Environmental Policy at the Freie Universität Berlin). Her areas of research were environmental policy, sustainability governance, technology and innovation, futures research and adaptation to climate change. Julia has a doctorate from Wageningen University (Netherlands), a diploma in political sciences from the Freie Universität Berlin and a German-French degree in political and social sciences from the Institut d'Etudes Politik (Sciences Po') in Paris and the Freie Universität Berlin.
