Stephan Dabbert

Stephan Dabbert (born 23 June 1958 in Braunschweig, Germany) is an
agricultural economist and Rector of the University of Hohenheim.
Biography.
The agricultural economist Stephan Dabbert studied agriculture at Christian-Albrecht 
University in Kiel, followed by a Master of Science degree in agricultural economics 
at Pennsylvania State University.
He obtained his doctorate from the University of Hohenheim (Germany)in 1990, as well as 
his professorship in the area of agricultural business management.
He led the Institute for Social Economy from 1992 until 1994 at
the Centre for Agrarian Landscape and Land Use Research in Muencheberg. He has
held the chair and leadership of the Department of Production Theory and Resource
Economics in Hohenheim since 1994. From 2000 to 2002 he was Dean of Faculty IV - 
Agricultural Science II – Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Technology and Livestock
Farming at Hohenheim University. From 2002 to 2006 he was Dean of the amalgamated
Faculty of Agricultural Science in Hohenheim. He was elected Rector in preference to 13 
other candidates by a large majority 2012.
Field of interest and publications.
Economic questions concerning ecological cultivation are a focus of Prof. Dabbert’s
research. A further emphasis is interdisciplinary modelling, by means of which 
agriculture can be represented at the countryside or regional level.