Curriculum Vitae

Malte Ehrich
Address: Heinrich-Düker Weg 12
37073 Göttingen, Germany

Telephone: +49 551 39 20955

E-mail: malte.ehrich@agr.uni-goettingen.de

Date of birth: 24th December 1986

Place of birth: Mölln, Germany

Current Position
06/2014 – to date Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
RTG 1666: GlobalFood “Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems”
University of Göttingen, Germany
Research: Food Standards and International Trade Flows
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer

Education
08/2013 – 05/2014 Advanced Program in International Economic Policy Research
Institute for the World Economy Kiel, Germany

10/2010 – 08/2013 Master of Arts in International Economics

Georg-August University Göttingen and University of Hamburg, Germany
Thesis: Co-movements of International and Domestic Prices
An analysis of agreements in the direction of price movements

01/2013 – 05/2013 Student Exchange, A New Passage to India

Delhi School of Economics, India

01/2009 – 06/2009 Student Exchange, German Academic Exchange Association (DAAD)

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

04/2007 – 03/2010 Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Thesis:The Impact of Trade Political Measures-Example South Africa

08/1997 – 06/2006 High School

Marion-Dönhoff Gymnasium Mölln
and Lauenburgische Gelehrtenschule Ratzeburg, Germany
Major Courses: Mathematics and History
Publications/current projects
Ehrich, M.; Flachsbarth, I.; Masood, A.; Brümmer, B.: Does GlobalGAP certification
promote agricultural exports? (work in progress)
Ehrich, M.; Shingal, A.: The harmonization of EU maximum residue limits and the effects
on agricultural trade (work in progress)
Roy, D.; Ehrich, M.; Munasib, A.: The effects of the Hartz reforms on the German labour
market - new evidence from synthetic control methods (work in progress)
Ehrich, M.; Brümmer, B.; Martinez-Zarzoso, I.: Exporter size matters - heterogeneous
effects of food standards on trade flows, (work in progress)
Fiankor, D.; Ehrich, M.; Brümmer, B. (2016): EU-African Regional Trade Agreements
as a Development Tool to Reduce Border Rejections, GlobalFood Discussion Paper No.87
Ehrich, M.; Mangelsdorf, A. (2016): The role of private food standards for manufactured
food exports from developing countries, GlobalFood Discussion Paper No.85
Ehrich, M.; Hess, S. (2016): The ability of organisations to adopt foreign trade standards,
in: Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus (51):
Perspektiven für die Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft nach der Liberalisierung, 157-169
German Association of Agricultural Economists, Landwirtschaftsverlag Münster.
Ehrich, M.; Kareem, F.; Masood, A.; Müller, A.; (2015): Obstacle or opportunity? Food
safety standards as a challenge for developing countries, GlobalFood Policy Brief No.1

Work Experience
Visiting researcher
09/2015 International food policy research institute (IFPRI), Devesh Roy, PhD
Regional office, New Delhi (India)

11/2014 – 12/2014 Department of Economics, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess

Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU) Uppsala (Sweden)

Teaching

04/2015 & 04/2016 Visiting lecturer for two lectures in International Trade
and one Stata block course (Graduate)
Prof. Dr. Neil Rankin, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

04/2015 – 07/2016 TA for seminar “Agricultural markets and policy” (Undergraduate)

04/2015 – 07/2015 TA in “World Agricultural Markets” (Graduate)

TA in Topic-centred seminar “Agricultural Trade Agreements” (Graduate)
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer, Georg-August University (Germany)

10/2007 – 03/2014 TA for Preliminary Mathematics, Principles of Economics,

Macroeconomics I, Microeconomics II (Undergraduate)
Dr. Britta Schnoor, Prof. Dr. Maik Wolters, Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar,
Prof. Dr. Schwager, Prof. Dr. Rübel
Universities of Göttingen, Kiel, and Hamburg (Germany)
 Supervision

04/2016 – to date Daniel Felipe Tudela Staub (Master-Thesis, in progress)

“Water drain - which factors explain virtual water flows?”

04/2016 – to date Nina Graßnick (Master-Thesis, in progress)

“Analyzing the agricultural trade effects of the North American Free Trade
Agreement: A Mexican perspective”

03/2016 – to date Solomon Odunsi (Master-Thesis, in progress)

“The usefulness of the empirical impact quotient to evaluate food standards”

08/2015 – 01/2016 Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor (Master-Thesis, completed)

“The Effect of EU-Africa Trade Agreements on Bilateral Trade Flows and
EU-Border Rejections”

07/2007 – 05/2014 Positions as Student Research Assistant

Forecasting Center (Institute for the World Economy Kiel, Germany)

Department of Globalisation (Institute for the World Economy Kiel)
Chair of Agricultural Policy (University of Göttingen, Germany)
RTG:1666 GlobalFood (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Institute for Econometrics (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Institute for Computer Science (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Internships

08/2010 – 09/2010 Institute for Economic Research

Cologne (Germany)

03/2010 – 05/2010 Ministry of Science, Economics, and Traffic Schleswig-Holstein,

Kiel (Germany)

08/2006 – 04/2007 Civil Service

Lebenshilfe Sylt e.V., Westerland (Germany)

Referee activities
Food Security

Conferences
09/2016 18th Annual Conference of European Trade Study Group (talk)
Aalto University Helsinki (Finland)
09/2015 55th GEWISOLA Annual Conference (talk)
Justus-Liebig University Giessen (Germany)
09/2015 17th Annual Conference of European Trade Study Group (talk)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
06/2015 6th PhD Workshop of EAAE (talk)
Roma Tre University (Italy)
02/2015 & 02/2016 Workshop “International Economics” (talks)
University of Göttingen (Germany)
Scholarships
04/2015 & 04/2016 DAAD-scholarships for lectureship at Stellenbosch University
08/2013 – 05/2014 Institute for the World Economy, Kiel
10/2010 – 08/2013 Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
01/2013 – 05/2013 A New Passage to India (DAAD)
01/2009 – 06/2009 DAAD-scholarship for student exchange semester at
Stellenbosch University

Workshops/Seminars
12/2015 “Effects of European food exports on African development”
Invited speaker of the Research Group “Development”
of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
10/2015 “The World Economy in 2050 - Taking various perspectives”
Co-organised with W.F. Hungerland & S. Geschonke
for the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
05/2014 “Ideologies in Economics and their long-run effects”
Co-organised with W.F. Hungerland & S. Geschonke
for the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation

Certificates and Skills

03/2015 – 08/2016 Complete Teaching Certificate of the Institute for Teaching and
Learning in Higher Education
University of Göttingen (Germany)

MS-Office Package Proficient JMulti Good

Stata Advanced CSPro Good
LATEX Advisor CATS for RATS Basic

Languages
German Mother Tongue
English Fluent
Spanish Basic

References
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess
Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis Chaif of Diary Economics
University of Göttingen University of Kiel
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5 Olshausenstraße 40
37073 Göttingen (Germany) 24118 Kiel (Germany)
bbruemm@gwdg.de shess@ae.uni-kiel.de
Phone: +49 551 39 4811 Phone: +49 431 880 1513

Göttingen, 1st September 2016