Niko Paech height - How tall is Niko Paech?

He was co-funder of CENTOS (Oldenburg Center for Sustainability Economics and Management) and is co-chairman of Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie (VÖÖ), a German society for ecological economics, member of ZENARIO (Center for sustainable space developing Oldenburg) and the network KoBE e.V. (Expertise center for Building and Energy). Besides Paech is a member and scientific adviser of attac-Germany and founding member of the „Postfossil-Institut“ (2011).

In 2006 he was awarded the Kapp-Forschungspreis für Ökologische Ökonomie for his work of „Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften jenseits von Innovationsorientierung und Wachstum – Eine unternehmensbezogene Transformationstheorie“. In 2014, he received the award "Mut zur Nachhaltigkeit" ("Encouraging Sustainability") by Zeit Wissen. The jury distinguished Paech as a luminous figure in the worldwide discussion about post-growth. In an article published in the Guardian about the German post growth movement, he was characterized as "one of the more high-profile members of this movement."

Paech received his diploma in economics in 1987 at the University of Osnabrück. He continued to work at the same university until 1997, obtaining his PhD in 1993.

Niko Paech (born December 9, 1960 in Schüttorf) is a German economist. Since 2018, he has been Assistant Professor at the University of Siegen. From 2010 to 2018, he was substitute professor at the chair of production and environment (PUM) at the University of Oldenburg. His research is in the fields of environmental economics, ecological economics and sustainability science.