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Fighting Global Hunger: Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Joachim von Braun

Joachim von Braun, Aline Luckgen

2022 Breakthrough Conversations

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Joachim von Braun. He talked about his work as an agricultural economist, ways of tackling global hunger and the impact of climate change on global food security.

The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2022 talked about their individual research, career paths and experiences.

The Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversations are supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Springer Nature.

Barbara Frommann

Joachim von Braun

Joachim von Braun is Professor for economic and technological change at Bonn University, Center for Development Research (ZEF). His research is on economic development, poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, agriculture, resource economics, and trade. Von Braun is President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican, Vice President of NGO Welthungerhilfe. He was Chair of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit 2021 of the UN Secretary General, and Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington DC 2001-2009.

Aline Luckgen

Springer Nature

Aline obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in bioengineering at Rice University in the USA and at the EPFL in Switzerland, respectively, completing short research internships in India, France and Japan during her studies. She completed her PhD at the Technical University in Berlin, where she investigated the degradation behavior of alginate-based hydrogels. Aline joined the Biotechnology team at Nature Communications in June 2020, where she now handles manuscripts in the areas of bioengineering and biomaterials.

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