Dr. Kathleen
Toepel
Kathleen Toepel studied economics and social sciences at the Berlin School of Economics. After graduating, she worked for ten years as a senior researcher and project manager at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. She completed her doctorate in 1996 at the University of Kassel on the interplay of European and national structural policy in the new federal states. Kathleen Toepel has been working with the IfS on a freelance basis since 2002. She has been a partner at the IfS since 2014.
Current fields of work:
- European structural policy
- Monitoring and evaluation of funding programmes
- Evaluation and accompanying research
- Innovation policy and energy transition
Researcher
Project Manager