Researcher Dr. Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen

Email: ingeborg.menzler-hokkanen (at) uef.fi

Dr. Econ. Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen is a university researcher at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus. Previously she worked for over 20 years as senior project researcher at the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki. After a solid research and publication record within economics. she focused on the socioeconomic aspects of plant biotechnology, and of pest management. She was a workpackage leader in the EU-project MASTER, which investigated the incentives and constraints of farmers to adopt IPM technologies.
She contributed to the EU-project REBECA on the regulation of biopesticides, was a researcher and WP-leader in the EU-FP7 project ‘ForestSpeCs’, and a Task leader in the EU-FP7 project AMIGA. Dr. Menzler—Hokkanen has a MSc-degree in agricultural economics from Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany: a MSc-degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University, USA; an Econ. Lic. -degree from the Swedish School of Economics (Helsinki), and a PhD from the Helsinki School of Economics.