Email: markus.knigge@ocean2012.eu

Address:
Belgium

Markus Knigge is an adviser to the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme. He is responsible for developing policy proposals, commissioning and managing research, and devising strategies for the dissemination of findings. Knigge is also at the forefront of Pew’s efforts to ensure that the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy ends overfishing in the EU and by EU vessels.

Prior to Pew, Knigge worked as EU Marine Programme officer for the European Policy Office of the World Wildlife Fund and as senior fellow with the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and Brussels. In 2004, Knigge was awarded the John J. McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Affairs and, in 2005, received a research scholarship to the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

As a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service, Knigge graduated from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University with a master’s degree in international affairs. Prior to that, he received the equivalent of a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the Technical University Berlin.