Edgar Göll

The person

Dr Edgar Göll has worked as a Senior Researcher at the IZT since 2020. From 2014-2020 he was Co-Research Director of the Cluster Futures Studies and Participation at the IZT. In 2016 he was elected to the Board of the Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung e. V. He is a member of the Academic Board of the European Journal for Futures Research. Edgar Göll joined the IZT in 1995 as a research associate. His work focuses on futures research, sustainable development, Local Agenda 21, governance, participation and globalisation.

In spring 2014, Dr Göll worked as a short-term lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. From 2007 to 2009, Dr Göll worked as a consultant and researcher at the Center for Future Studies (CFS), a staff department of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) in Cairo, Egypt. His stay was organised by CIM (Frankfurt/M.) in the Integrated Experts Programme. Dr Göll was awarded the Robert Jungk Research Fellowship 2011 by the City of Salzburg and the Robert Jungk Centre Salzburg.

Since 2010, Dr Göll has also been a lecturer in the Master's programme in Futures Studies at the Institut Futur of the FU Berlin in the field of politics/governance. He is a founding member of the Berlin 21 Association (and its predecessor bodies) and was an expert for the Berlin House of Representatives' Study Commissions on Sustainable Development and Local Agenda 21. He was editor of the now defunct journal Zukünfte for many years and is still the contact person for research visits. These have taken him to the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development in Vienna and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (Land Salzburg Research Fellowship), among others.

Dr Göll is a member of the Extracurricular Education Worlds practice network in the UNESCO World Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development in Germany. Dr Göll studied sociology, administrative sciences and social sciences at universities and colleges in Bielefeld, Madison/USA, Speyer, FU Berlin and completed her doctorate at the University of Göttingen.