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Bodo Steiner is Professor of Food Economics & Business Management, Head of the research group Management & Organizations For Sustainable Food Systems, Deputy director at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, and Coordinator of  MATS, a research and innovation action project, funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. He is affiliated with the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (URBARIA), the Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ), the InterTran Research Group for Sustainable Law and Business at the University of Helsinki (INTERTRAN), the Sustainable Change Research Network (SUCH) the Finnish Organic Research Institute, the Task Force of the Finnish National Food Research Strategy, and serves as advisory board member for the Institute for the Economy for the Common Good, member of the Agri-Food Transitions Advisory Group of the Climate Bonds Initiative, and as member to the Environmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board of the European Commission.

He earned his PhD from the University of Reading and has previously held faculty and visiting appointments at the University of California Berkeley, University of Alberta, University College Cork, University of Southern Denmark, University of Kiel, and Beijing Normal University.

His recent research and teaching interests focus on mixed methods to address organizational sustainability, in particular social capital, social sustainability in food systems and value chains, and circular economy strategies. His work has been published by MIT Press, The Economist, and journals including Ecological Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Regional Studies, European Journal of Political Economy, Food Policy, Economic Record, European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Coordinator of "Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable - MATS", a research & innovation action project, funded by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant agreement no. 101000751 (Total budget 3 999 726,25€; University of Helsinki share 910 912€).

Project Leader of "TraditionGood- The well-being of nature and cattle with traditional biotopes" (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland; total budget 180 000€, University of Helsinki share 85 953€)

Project member of "Increasing consumer trust and support for the food supply chain" (EIT Food; PI: Prof. Richard Bennett, University of Reading)

TEACHING

YET-102 Sustainability and global food value chains

EKM-103 Managing innovation in agrifood value chains for sustainability

DS-TOOLBOX (EIT Food, with Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

ThinkTech! (EIT Food, with Fraunhofer IGB & DIL e.V.)

INNOFOOD - Innovating Food Value Chain Innovations (EIT Food, with Prof. Shtub)

Circular Business Models for Sustainable Urban Food Systems (EIT Food, with Prof. De Bernardi)

AGERE-A06 Theories and Application in Strategic Management (with Dr. Rantamäki-Lahtinen)

EKM-119 Master Thesis Seminar Food Economy and Consumption

Meritförteckning

CURRENT PRINCIPAL POSITIONS

Professor (full, permanent), Department of Economics & Management, University of Helsinki (since 1.4.2017).

Head of research group, Department of Economics & Management, University of Helsinki (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/management-organizations-for-sustainable-food-systems) (since 2017).

Deputy director, Department of Economics & Management, University of Helsinki (since 2018).

CURRENT EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Environmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board, European Commission, April 2019 - present.

Member, Agri-Food Transitions Advisory Group, Climate Bonds Initiative, April 2022 - present.

Affiliated Researcher, Duke University, Global Value Chains Initiative (https://globalvaluechains.org/person/steiner-bodo), 2015 - present.

Collaborating Researcher, ECOMAS Research Group - Economics, Environment, Sustainability and Tourism (TIDES Institute, University of Las Pamas Gran Canaria (http://www.tides.ulpgc.es/en/investigation/research-groups/ecomas.html), 2015 - present.

Advisory Board Member, Institute for the Economy for the Common Good (www.gemeinwohl-institut.org), 2016 - present.

Network Member, NanoFunDus, research network, nanotechnology functionalization for diagnosis & safety in food supply chain & health care (www.nanofundus.net/), 2014 - present.

PRINCIPAL POSITIONS DURING THE PAST 10 YEARS

Professor MSO (‘With Special Responsibilities’), University of Southern Denmark (July 1, 2012 - December 31, 2016).

Adjunct Professor, University of Alberta (2012 - 2016).

Senior Lecturer, College of Business & Law, Department of Food Business & Development, University College Cork (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012).

Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta (2009 - June 30, 2011).

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (formerly Dept. of Rural Economy), University of Alberta (2004-2009).

Research Fellow, RDRC (Rural Development Research Consortium) University of California Berkeley (2003 - 2007).

OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL WORKING EXPERIENCE

Sabbatical, Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (Chair of Regional Economics, Prof. Johannes Bröcker), July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011.

Visiting scholar, University of California Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (November 2002 - June 2004).

Research Fellow, Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), November 2002 - December 2003.

Visiting researcher, Agricultural University of Norway, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, NLH, Åas, March 2001.

Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel (1999-2002).

Reseach Associate, University of California Berkley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (July 1997 - August 1997)

European Commission Research Training Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Reading, UK (1994-96)

Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkely, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (April 1995 - May 1995)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Reading, UK (1999).

M.Sc. Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Reading, UK (1994).

B.Sc. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Reading, UK (1993).

ERASMUS student, Facult´e de Droit & Sciences Economiques, Univ. of Montpellier I (1992).

Pre-diploma, University of Kiel, Germany (1990).