Andreas Thiel is Professor of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at Universität Kassel, Germany. He is an Affiliated Faculty member of the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at University of Duisburg-Essen. His research addresses the institutional dimension of social-ecological systems with specific focus on governance in the water, agriculture and biodiversity sectors.