Former Team Members
Anja Wittich
Division of Social Sciences
Department of Economics
Working Group Nature Conservation and Biodiversity
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Curriculum Vitae
2013 - 2014
Researcher at UFZ
since 2012
Member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, Thematic Groups on Ecosystem Services and Mountain Ecosystems
2009 - 2013
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Caucasus Cooperation Center Tbilisi, Georgia. Head of Office, Programme coordination (supported by the Centre for International Migration and Development, CIM)
2007 - 2009
Adelphi Research gGmbH Berlin. Project manager: among others coordination of training programme “Environmental policy and law in the South Caucasus”
Education
2005 - 2007
Central European University Budapest, Hungary and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden. Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management (EU Erasmus Mundus Programme, MESPOM)
2005
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe/ Szentendre, Hungary: NGO Support Programme − Planning and implementing a training for young NGO experts
2004 - 2005
Research stay at the Agrarian University of Astana in Astana, Kazakhstan
2001 - 2004
Greifswald University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences, Minor in Environmental Policy
Current Projects
ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into development practice
Publications
Maas, A. and Carius, A. with Wittich A.; 2013: From conflict to cooperation? Environmental cooperation as a tool for peacebuilding, in: Floyd R. and Matthews, Richard A. (eds.): Environmental Security: Approaches and Issues. New York: Routledge
Wittich, A.; 2012: Making the economic case for biodiversity conservation in the Caucasus. Presentation at TEEB Conference, Leipzig
Wittich, A.; 2012: An economic approach to biodiversity conservation in the Great Caucasus. Presentation at Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment Conference (GMBA) of DIVERSITAS in Georgia
Wittich, A.; Maas, A.; 2009: Regional Cooperation in the South Caucasus − Lessons for Peacebuilding, from Economy and Environment. Brussels: Initiative for Peacebuilding
Wittich, A.; Maas, A.; and Carius, A.; 2008: Peace, Security and the Environment in the Black Sea Region, in: Agrasot et al.: Greening the Black Sea Synergy. Brussels: WWF and Heinrich-Böll-Foundation