Professor Stephan Dabbert, born in 1958, has been President of the University of Hohenheim since April 2012.
After vocational training as a farmer, Prof. Dabbert studied Agricultural Science and Agricultural Economics at the University of Kiel and Pennsylvania State University in the USA and graduated with a "Master of Science in Agricultural Economics" from Pennsylvania State University.
He completed his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Hohenheim. He headed the Institute of Socioeconomics at the Center for Agricultural Land and Land Use Research in Müncheberg from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 he was appointed to the chair of "Production Theory and Resource Economics in Agriculture" at the University of Hohenheim. Here he was Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences from 2000 to 2006.
Professor Dabbert's scientific work focuses on the economics and politics of organic farming, the economic and agricultural policy evaluation of environmentally friendly land use methods, resource economics, and agricultural economic sector modelling within the framework of interdisciplinary landscape modelling.
In 2016 Professor Dabbert received the nationwide award of "Rector of the Year".
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