Dr. des. David Jacobs is MCG’s Renewable Energy Advisor, in which capacity he provides expertise on renewable energy policy in Germany, Europe and the developing world. He was engaged as a consultant for feed-in tariffs and other support instruments in a number of countries, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Ghana and Kenya.

Dr. Jacobs has given seminars on renewable energy policy design for political decision makers in Malaysia, Azerbaijan and Nigeria. Previously, he consulted to the World Bank, UNEP, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OSCE, the German Bundestag, the German wind energy association BWE and a number of research institutes. Dr. Jacobs has an academic background in International Business and Cultural Studies and is lecturer at the Environmental Policy Research Centre in Berlin (FFU, Freie Universität Berlin). For his PhD project he analyzed the historic development of feed-in tariff schemes in Germany, France and Spain. He is co-author of “The Feed-in Tariff Handbook” (Powering the Green Economy, Earthscan) and a large number of other publications on support instruments for renewable electricity.