Frederic Hanusch is Professor of Planetary Change and Politics at Faculty 09 – Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and Environmental Management at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He is also co-founder of its Panel on Planetary Thinking, co-convener of the Earth System Governance Project’s Working Group on Democracy, and recently appointed by the British Academy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.) into a working group on Transnational and Planetary Challenges as part of their Program Global (Dis)Orders.
His latest book, The Politics of Deep Time (Cambridge University Press, 2023), examines the political institutionalization of planetary temporalities. Other relevant publications demonstrate his engagement with both scholarly research and broader public discourse, ranging from his research monograph Democracy and Climate Change (Routledge, 2018) to the essay-based edited volume Seeds for Democratic Futures (transcript, 2024).
Before joining Justus Liebig University, he earned a MA in Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology at Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen and worked for the German Government in the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) in Berlin, where he contributed to various policy-oriented reports, ranging from urbanization to SDGs to climate protection. Subsequently, he was a research group leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam and a fellow at THE NEW INSTITUTE in Hamburg.
He received several scholarships, including the Visiting Distinguished Fellowship of the University of Canberra at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance in 2024. Frederic Hanusch regularly appears in newspapers, radio and television. More information can be found at www.hanusch.earth.