Aleh Cherp

Aleh Cherp is a professor in Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. His research focuses on feasibility of energy transitions and climate strategies, political economy of energy transitions, and energy security. In 2008-2012 he served as the Convening Lead Analyst on Energy Security at the Global Energy Assessment. He is a Lead Author in Working Group 3 (Mitigation of Climate Change) of the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Since 2005, Prof. Cherp has been the coordinator for MESPOM, Erasmus Mundus Masters course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, which CEU operates jointly with Lund University (Sweden), the University of Manchester (UK), and the University of the Aegean (Greece). Outside CEU, he served as a panel chair and an evaluator of the European Research Council, and the rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the European Commission. Prof Cherp has also undertaken professional work for the European Environment Agency (EEA), UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and USAID among others. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Energy Research and Social Science.

Aleh Cherp co-leads an inter-university research group on energy transitions, POLET and also holds a professor's appointment at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden. Prior to joining CEU in 2000, he earned his Masters and PhD at Manchester University and worked with NGOs and the United Nations. His first degree was in Physics.