Honorary award to Einar Hope

Under the International Association for Energy Economics (IASEE) European Conference in Dusseldorf Einar Hope received an award for his effort in the association. Simultaneously PhD student Lisa Assmann won a prize for one of her papers.

05.09.2013 - Tobias Wichstrøm Munter

The IAEE is an association for energy economics with over 4000 members I more than 100 countries, with organized departments in 30 of these countries, including Norway.

The organization holds several conferences around the world every year. Under this year's European conference professor emeritus Einar Hope from the Department of Economics received "the Outstanding Contributions to the IAEE Award", the associations highest award.

Unexpected and pleasant

- This was completely unexpected and very pleasant. Working with the IAEE is exceptionally enjoyable, says Hope, who has been a member of the organization since the 1980s.

Since then he has been part of several boards, organizing committees, and editorial offices. Hope was President of the association in 2010, and took the initiative to start the journal Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy.

- I am formally out of the board now, but I'm not quite yet finished with the association yet. I'm going to take part in organizing the international IAEE conference here at NHH in June 2016 - that's a big event, he smiles.

- And what's the way forward for the IAEE?

- I think it is important to engage students and the younger members, and to continue staying relevant and in pace with the times. We have a broad organization and a strong international network, and it is important to maintain and continue to use IAEE resources in the best possible way, says Hope.

Einar Hope (t.h) with its price. Here with the University of Cambridge professor and IAEE President David Newbery.

Won article competition

Lisa Assmann, a PhD student at Department of Business and Management Science, has taken part in one of the IAEEs student initiatives.

Assmann won the "Student Poster Session" - a competition where students present their latest academic work to conference participants.

- This came as a surprise. The poster topic is somewhat in a "niche" when it came to conference theme, so winning was unexpected, says Assmann, who started her PhD last year.

The winning project, Missing in Action? Speed Optimization and Slow Steaming in Maritime Shipping, is about speed optimization and emissions from cargo ships, and is in cooperation with the professors Gunnar S. Eskeland and Jonas Andersson.

- The paper is a further development of my master thesis, and is a statistic analysis of shipping between the Persian Gulf and Japan. We find that large cargo ships don't change their speed significantly, even when the price of oil and the corresponding level of freight rates would make it profitable, continues Assmann.

The project is now nearing its final phase, and Assmann hopes that she one day can get it published.

- But it will probably be nice to finish my coursework too, she laughs.

Only 6 posters were allowed to be presented at the conference. In the photo is Assmann with her winner diploma and Christoph Weber (University of Duisburg Essen), the main judge for the competition.