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Reading, UK

E-mail: [email protected]

Date of Birth: 28th November 1973

Place of Birth: Celle

Nationality: German

Key Skills

Project Management and Administration,

Statistical Analysis,

IT and Language Skills.

Professional experience 9/1998 to present
Food Economist Centre for Food Economics Research, Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, the University of Reading
Consultancy and project management
9/1998 to present European Union FAIR-Project: Assessment of the effect of food safety and quality standards on trade in agricultural and food products and the impact of regulatory reform

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12/1998-9/1999 UK Department for International Development (DFID): The Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Developing Countries: Case Study Vietnam

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1/2000-9/2000 European Commission, DG I.: In-depth Analysis of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Barriers to Trade in Third Country Markets in Agriculture

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Research Assistant Internship, United Nations, Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), Vienna, Austria, 7/1998 - 9/1998
Research Assistant Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1996/1997
  • Assistant in the section of irrigation and agricultural economics
  • Statistical analysis of agro-economic data
Research Assistant Department of Ecology, Ministry of Environment, Lower Saxony, 2/1994 - 3/1994
  • Observation of Ecological stations in Lower Saxony
  • Weather interpretation and forecasting
Degree qualification 10/1998 to present
Ph.D. The University of Reading
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics
Reading, United Kingdom, RG 6 2 AR
Thesis title: "The Assessment of the Effects of Food Quality and Safety Standards on Trade in Agricultural and Food Products and the Impact of Regulatory Reform"
MSc 4/1996-6/1998

Economic Geography (joint degree)

University of Newcastle, Department of Geography
University of Hanover, Department of Geography
Friedich-Wilhelms University, Bonn, Department of Geography
Major subjects of study: Social/Economic Geography, Empirical Analysis, Market Research Techniques, Statistics, Local Economic Development, South East Asian Development, African Studies, Environmental Modelling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), EU-Integration, Business Location, Multinational/Global Technological Change

 
2nd minor subject: European and International Law, Trade Law, European Economic/Company Law, Contract Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Eco-Audit

 
1st minor subject: Regional Planning, Rural Development, Land Management, Project Management, Institutionalisation

 
Dissertation :"Structural development and problems of the Cypriot agriculture and agro-political adjustments under a common European market"

 
Additional Skills
  • Business and management training
  • IT literate (incl. Microsoft Office, Corel Draw, Access, SPSS, GIS-systems, HTML)
  • German, native; English, fluent; Spanish, conversational.
  • Supervision of research assistants and students
  • Co-ordination of the Internet-project "Open to Europe" (www.geog.uni-hannover.de/wigeo/intersem/
  • Full clean UK driving license
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Conferences and presentations
Lux, N. (2000): The impact of quality and safety measures on food exports: A case study of French cheese exports to the United States. Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality, Symposium sponsored by the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Canada

Lux, N. (2000): An evaluation of technical barriers on trade in agricultural and food products between the European Union and the United States, Agricultural Economics Society, Postgraduate Conference, Manchester

Lux, N. (1999): Assessment of the differences in food safety and quality standards that affect trade between the EU and the US. European Commission, Brussels

Lux, N. (1999): Discriminatory trade barriers between European importers and domestic suppliers in the US and the additional cost to export. European Commission, Brussels

Publications and reports
Lux, N., Henson, S, Loader, R at al. (2000): The Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Developing Countries, Department for International Development, UK, 2000

Lux, N. and S. Henson (2000): The impact of U.S. non-tariff trade barriers on the European export market, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC, Montreal

Lux, N. (2000): In-depth analysis of sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade in third country markets: Case study Egypt, Reading

Lux, N. and M. Bredahl (1999): Vietnam: A case study of the impact of technical trade barriers on developing countries, Reading

Lux, N. (1999): Understanding countries' regulatory systems: Evaluation of technical regulations of the United States and the European Union. Working Paper, Co-ordinated studies in view of the future round of multilateral trade negotiations in the agriculture and food sector, Brussels

Lux, N. (1998): Structural development and problems of the Cypriot agriculture and agro-political adjustments under a Common European market. Hanover
Extra-curricular Activities:
  • Member of the University Parliament and Council in 1995
  • Vice president of a democratic student group: Organiser of various meetings, campaigns, public relations (1993-1996)
  • Treasurer of the democratic-political youth organisation Celle (1993-1995)
  • Hobbies include fencing, Aikido, music (piano)
  • Co-ordination of the Internet-project "Open to Europe" (http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/wigeo/intersem/)
References available upon request

 

 
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