Mr Tobias Klaus is a Senior Researcher at the ECOLOG-Institut, Germany. His work focuses on sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy, especially solar, wind and hydropower, in development cooperation, and on building sustainable value chains, with regional expertise in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He teaches and advises on renewable energy in development cooperation, business development in Ghana and Tanzania, and university development in Uganda and Tanzania. He has been a research associate at the University of Paderborn, ISC Konstanz and the University of Stuttgart, Director of Nishati Africa in Dar es Salaam and co-founder of ENG Solutions in Accra. He studied political science and political economy in Bonn, Frankfurt, Dublin, Durham (North Carolina) and Bloomington (Indiana).