Joachim Karl

Mr. Joachim Karl is Chief of the Investment Policy Research Section in UNCTAD’s Division on Investment and Enterprise. Before joining the UN in 2005, he worked for seven years on international investment matters at the OECD and the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels. He started his professional career in the German Ministry of Economics in 1987, where he dealt with regional state aids, European Law issues and international investment agreements. 

Mr. Karl holds a PhD in international law from the University of Konstanz in Germany, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard’s J.F.Kennedy School of Government. He has written numerous articles on European law and international investment issues, and was a lecturer at the German Federal Academy of Public Administration.