Martina Brockmeier is president of the Leibniz Association since July 1, 2022. She was Chairperson of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) from February 2017 to January 2020.
She has also served as member of the DFG Review Board (2008-2016), the Senate Evaluation Committee (SAE) of the Leibniz Association (2001-2009), the National Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech, since 2018), the Academic Advisory Council (AAC, since 2020) of the University of Heidelberg and the Senate Strategic Committee (SAS, 2020-2021)) of the Leibniz Association. Since 1999 Martina Brockmeier has been a member of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Advisory Board of Purdue University (USA). As Dean she headed the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim from 2012 to 2014. After studying at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, she was awarded her doctorate there (1993), spent time abroad in the USA (Purdue University) and Australia (University of Adelaide) as part of a DFG habilitation fellowship and completed her habilitation (2002, Agricultural and Food Economics). From 1999 to 2009 she was Director of the Institute for Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy at the Thuenen Institute, Braunschweig, before accepting the call to the W3 professorship for International Agricultural Trade and Food Security at the University of Hohenheim. She is currently on leave of absence to assume the presidency of the Leibniz Association.
Martina Brockmeier's main research interests are agricultural economics and policy, in particular international trade in agricultural products and food. She focuses on regional and multilateral trade agreements and their impact on developing countries and global food security, which she analyses using the Global Trade Analysis Model GTAP.
