SYLVIA LOREK

Sylvia Lorek

Committee Member

ABOUT

Sylvia Lorek is a researcher and policy consultant for sustainable consumption. She holds a Ph.D. in consumer economics based on degrees in household economics and nutrition (Oecotrophologie) as well as economics. The combination of these two disciplines provides her with the tools – the individual micro-economic and the societal macroeconomic perspective – for a well-founded analysis of the contexts, in which the scientific and societal discourses about sustainable consumption take place. 

As chair of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V.  Sylvia Lorek is working on studies and as consultant for national and international organisations und institutes and active in various national, regional and global networks on sustainable consumption.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Sufficiency
  • Environmental justice
  • Science-policy interface
ORGANISATION

Sustainable Europe Research Institute Germany e.V.

POSITION

Chair

SCIENTIFIC TRACKS

Sufficiency