Policies and management practices for sustainable oil palm - Evidence from Indonesia

• 05/2016 – 05/2020
  PhD in Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  Doctoral thesis: Policies and Management Practices for Sustainable Oil palm – Evidence from Indonesia, http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-1425-B
  Thesis committee: Prof. Meike Wollni (1^st supervisor), Prof. Bernhard Brümmer (2^nd supervisor) and Prof. Matin Qaim (3^rd supervisor)
• 10/2013 – 04/2016
  Master of Arts in International Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  Master thesis: The impact of trade on SO2 emissions. An industry level analysis.
  Supervisor: Prof. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
• 10/2009 – 03/2013
  Bachelor of Arts in French-German Studies, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, and University of Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  Bachelor thesis: The French Africa Policy in the Era of Sarkozy: Development aid as tool of the Africa policy as (break with) tradition
  Supervisor: Prof. Alexander Straßner

• since 05/2016
  Research Associate at the Chair of Environmental and Resource Economics (Prof. Wollni), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
  Associated Researcher of the CRC 990 “Ecological and Socioeconomics Functions of Tropical Rainforest Transformation Systems”, subproject C08
• 12/2013 – 03/2016
  Student assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy and SME research (Prof. Bizer), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 08/2014 – 10/2014
  Internship with the KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Department of Governance Affairs in West Africa
• 04/2013 – 07/2013
  Internship with the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Yaoundé, Cameroon
• 05/2011 – 07/2011
  Internship with the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
  Department of Energy, Environmental Industry and Competition Policy

• Rudolf K, Romero M, Asnawi R, Irawan B, Wollni M (2020) Effects of information and seedling provision on tree planting and survival in smallholder oil palm plantations. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 103: 102361 doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102361
• Romero M, Wollni M, Rudolf K, Asnawi R, Irawan B (2019) Promoting biodiversity enrichment in smallholder oil palm monocultures - Experimental evidence from Indonesia. World Development 124: 104638 doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104638

• Natural Resource Management
• Rural Development
• Policy Analysis (Randomized controlled trials, field experiments, quasi-experimental methods)
• Sustainable Agriculture