Claus Deblitz

Date of birth

July 10, 1961

Nationality

German

Marital status

Married, two daughters

Language skills

German – native speaker

English – very good

Spanish – good

Countries worked in

Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Uruguay, USA

Positions and functions

Coordinator of the agri benchmark Beef & Sheep Network

Education

1993
PhD in Agricultural Economics
International competitiveness of grazing systems with beef cattle and sheep

1989
Diploma in Agriculture
Status quo and income alternatives in a less favoured area in Germany

Publications

List of Publications »

Professional experience
(Descending chronological order)

2007-2008

Research stay at the University of Sydney / Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia.

Director of the Asian Agribusiness Research Centre (AARC)

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/aarc/

since 2008–today
Senior researcher at the vTI-Institute of Farm Economics,
Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries,
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI) Braunschweig, Germany

1996–2007
Senior researcher at the Institute of Farm Economics and Rural Studies (BAL), Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) Braunschweig, Germany

2001-2006
Coordination of the Beef Network

2001
Founder of the IFCN Beef Network

2000-2001
Research stay at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

1996-2000
General project management, dairy and cash crop analysis

1996
Co-founder of the International Farm Comparison Network IFCN, the predecessor of agri benchmark

1993-1996
Project manager at Agriculture and Food Consultants, Bonn, Germany