Tina Völker

Tina Völker is a lawyer and completed her studies at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität in Münster/Germany and University of Liverpool/England. In her Postgraduate Judicial Traineeship she worked in German Bundestag for the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union and at German Technical Agency in Lima/Peru in the Criminal-Law-Reform-Project.

Ms. Völker started her career at a law firm, specializing in insolvency law, before changing over to the International Department of German Solar Industry Association (BSW), focusing on monitoring and evaluation of international solar markets and policies as well as developing export strategies for the German solar industry.

Afterwards Ms. Völker worked at German Energy-Agency (dena) in the Renewable Energy Department. At dena she was advising German renewable energy companies on international market entry strategies as well as analysing foreign renewable energy markets. Since May 2008 Ms. Völker is a project director at Renewables Academy AG. She is responsible for the ICI-Projects TREE (Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency, www.tree-project.de), and REN@EARTH in cooperation with EARTH University in Costa Rica as well as the online degree “MBA Renewables” in cooperation with Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.