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All lectures and presentations by Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun

  • Expert discussion by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection on the ConPolicy evaluation of shortcomings in the implementation of the Directive on common rules for the internal market for electricity (virtual, February 26, 2026)
  • German Climate Consortium: Expert discussion on the climate transition outlook for 2025 – comments made during the workshop on the consumption transition (Berlin, January 27, 2026)
  • GDV Insurance Summit 2024: Panel discussion on the topic of financial education in Germany (Berlin, March 20, 2024)
  • Organisation Werbetreibende im Markenverband: Presentation of the results of the European good practice initiative on consent management for cookies (Virtual, May 02, 2023)
  • European Consumer Summit: Keynote – Plea for a more ambitious and pro-active consumer policy in light of significant challenges (Brussels, March 28, 2023)
  • European Consumer Summit: Workshop – Consumer vulnerability and how to reach specific consumer groups (Brussels, March 28, 2023)
  • Conference of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection: Keynote: Data power, digital asymmetry, digital vulnerability (Vienna, November 25, 2022)
  • Münchner Kreis: Expert workshop: Consumer protection in the digital age (Virtual, September 14, 2022)
  • German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection: Working together for digital corporate responsibility (Virtual, July 05, 2022)
  • Conference of the Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs (SVRV): Personalized consumer information: Presentation of the final results of our behavioral experiments (Virtual, September 21, 2021)
  • BMJV-Conference: Consumer-enabling technologies in the context of the online conference 'Consumer protection in the digital age' (Virtual, September 14, 2021)
  • Federal Environment Agency: Countering the throwaway culture: (In)convenient truths and who is actually responsible (Virtual, June 15, 2021)
  • Hoffmann Global Institute for Business & Society: Contribution to a panel discussion on the rise of the conscious consumer (Virtual, June 15, 2021)
  • German Food Federation: Overview of the application of nudging in the European Union and Germany (Virtual, May 20, 2021)
  • BEUC: Key results of the EU training needs analysis of consumer professionals (Virtual, May 06, 2021)
  • Bayern.Innovativ: Panel discussion about "Opportunities and risks of a cooperative consumer policy" (Virtual, March 11, 2021)
  • Colombian Communications Regulation Commission: Consumer protection and empowerment in the digital world (Virtual, December 01, 2020)
  • BMJV-Conference: Clicking away is not a solution – User-friendly web designs for online consent (Virtual, October 29, 2020)
  • ULD-Summer Academy 2019: Input presentation about "Privacy – the new organic?!" (Kiel, September 09, 2019)
  • Re:publica19: Introductory presentation about "Saving the world with digitalization? Opportunities & risks of digital innovations for sustainable consumption" (Berlin, May 06, 2019)
  • Consumer Protection Forum „Artificial Intelligence and consumer policy: Potentials of consumer informatics“: Introductory presentation about „Consumer informatics as a new instrument for consumer policy“ (Stuttgart, April 30, 2019)
  • Institute for European Politics: Seminar about "The role of research for an evidence-based consumer policy: Examples from the EU" (Berlin, March 26, 2019)
  • Hugo Boss-Employee event: Input about Stakeholder Engagement: Why, how and what next? (Metzingen, December 13, 2018)
  • WZB-Mercator Forum: Panel discussion about "Using Big Data to influence the behavior of citizens?" (Berlin, December 07, 2018)
  • BMJV-Workshop "Digital World": Consent 2.0 - Evaluation of the One-Pager: Potential, reality and outlook (Berlin, November 23, 2018)
  • Tagesspiegel Consumer Protection Conference: Panel discussion about "Influencing consumers – is this legitimate?" (Berlin, October 09, 2018)
  • Systain/ConPolicy Leaders’ Circle: Input about Corporate Digital Responsibility: Responsible digitalization (Berlin, September 27, 2018)
  • ING-DiBa Morning Club: Input about consumer protection as a factor for competition (Berlin, September 25, 2018)
  • HDE Forum Handel 4.0: Panel discussion about "Corporate Digital Responsibility – What responsibility have businesses in the digital economy?“ (Berlin, September 24, 2018)
  • Journal of Consumer Policy – 40 Years Anniversary Conference: An investigation into the potentials of new digital technologies for consumer policy (Florence, September 14, 2018)
  • EU-Commission: Input in the context of the workshop about the state of the collaborative economy in Germany (Berlin, July 03, 2018)
  • IND-DiBa Austria: Input about consumer-friendly information about consumer credit advertising (Vienna, May 24, 2018)
  • Working Group Consumer Policy / BDI – Federation of German Industries: Corporate Digital Responsibility – Possibilities to simplify information in the digital world (Berlin, November 3, 2017)
  • econsense Impulses for sustainability: Workshop Data protection and security in the industry 4.0 (Nauen, September 28, 2017)
  • UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform: Indicators of consumer protection and empowerment in the digital world (Geneva, July 05, 2017)
  • Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: What effect has the one-pager? (Berlin, April 27, 2017)
  • UNCTAD: eCommerce Week: Key lessons for consumer protection in eCommerce (Geneva, April 26, 2017)
  • Federation of German Consumer Organizations: The role of consumer information in the digital age (Berlin, April 25, 2017)
  • Ministry of Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection of Baden-Württemberg: Providing access to independent comparison portals for energy prices – Could a reference portal be the solution? (Brussels, March 27, 2017)
  • G20 Consumer Summit: Indicators of consumer protection and empowerment in the digital world (Berlin, March 15, 2017)
  • Ökoworld Investment Committee: Sharing Economy: Opportunities, risks and look ahead (Berlin, January 19, 2017)
  • Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets: Measuring consumer detriment (Amsterdam, November 16, 2016)
  • Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development: Panel discussion on scientific policy advice (Berlin, July 23, 2016)
  • EOS: Input in the context of the parliamentary breakfast 'Much text is no good consumer information - What is key for effective consumer information?' (Berlin, June 23, 2016)
  • Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia: Access to right for consumers in NRW: Study results and recommendations for action (Düsseldorf, June 22, 2016)
  • ABIDA-Conference: Regulation and Governance in Times of Big Data (Münster, February 02, 2016)
  • SCHUFA: Podium discussion about the topic „Consumer competencies in the digital age - implications for politics and businesses“ (Berlin, November 11, 2015)
  • Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: Key Points of a Digital Regulatory Policy (Berlin, November 02, 2015)
  • German International Cooperation: Tools for Strategic Consumer Policy Making: Methods used in the European Union to measure consumer detriment (New Delhi, September 29, 2015)
  • Indo-German Working Group on Quality Infrastructure for Cooperation in Standardization, Conformity Assessment & Product Safety: Expectations of the German toy industry regarding quality and safety of imported toys from India (Mumbai, September 26, 2015)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Law enforcement in consumer data protection: Status quo and policy recommendations (Berlin, September 23, 2015)
  • Gesellschaft für Programmforschung: Transparency in Regulation and Legislation (Berlin, July 3, 2015)
  • European Commission: Key Points of a Digital Regulatory Policy (Brussels, June 12, 2015)
  • Deutscher Bundestag: Institutionalization of consumer policy and consumer protection in Germany (Berlin, June 8, 2015)
  • Self-Regulation Information Economy (SRIW): Key Points of a Digital Regulatory Policy (Berlin, May 13, 2015)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: EU-discussion about better regulation in the digital world (Berlin, May 7, 2015)
  • Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: Evaluation of the discussion on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) from a consumer perspective (Berlin, 12. Februar 2015)
  • Evangelische Akademie Loccum: The implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for consumers: Consumer needs for safety, information, education and sustainable consumption (Loccum, February 6, 2015)
  • Institute for social and economic policy education: Requirements, challenges and possibilities for consumer policy (Berlin, October 27, 2014)
  • Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: Presentation of evaluation results of the law against cost-traps in the Internet (Berlin
, October 7, 2014)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : On the way to a future-oriented institutional landscape for consumer policy (Berlin, September 22, 2014)
  • Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: Handover of the evaluation results on the law against cost-traps in the Internet (Berlin, September 4, 2014)
  • German International Cooperation: lternative and Online Dispute Resolution in Germany (Beijing, June 27, 2014)
  • EU-China Trade Project: Consumer Protection in E-Commerce in the EU (Beijing, June 26, 2014)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : TTIP and consumer protection (Berlin, May 7, 2014)
  • Evangelische Akademie Loccum: What does TTIP mean for consumers on both sides of the Atlantic? (Loccum, May 2, 2014)
  • Forum "Sustainable Consumption": Relationship between CSR and sustainabilty policy (Bonn, January 15, 2014)
  • Quadriga Hochschule Berlin: Expert forum: The use of the Internet and Social Media by public institutions: Risks and Opportunities (Berlin, November 29, 2013)
  • GdW Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen e.V.: How political objectives turn into regulation (Berlin, November 21, 2013)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : For more professionalization in consumer policy Presentation (Mainz, November 19, 2013)
  • Workshop: Internet trust labels and instruments for consumer market monitoring (Shenzhen, June 27, 2013)
  • Workshop: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Germany and Europe (Shenzhen, June 26, 2013)
  • Workshop with the Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC): Internet trust labels (Beijing, June 24, 2013)
  • BvD Congress: Privacy portal - Project presentation (Berlin, April 25, 2013)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Résumé: More empirical evidence in consumer policy? Thoughts on the introduction of impact assessments' (Berlin, December 10, 2012)
  • SPD Bundestagsfraktion: Consumers in Markets: Status Quo Analysis (Berlin, November 5, 2012)
  • Fee-Only Adviser Congress 2012: Towards a fairer deal for consumers and industry - Lessons from the Retail Distribution Review and the ban of commissions in the UK (Mainz, October 16, 2012)
  • BvD Congress: Privacy portal - Project presentation (Berlin, May 10, 2012)
  • DGB-Workshop: Employee and consumer interests: Allies or opponents? (Berlin, March 19, 2012)
  • Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Consumer Policy Congress - From information to regulation - How can consumer rights effectively by enforced (Cologne, October 13, 2011)
  • Workshop: Challenges to consumer protection in E-Commerce and The importance of informed consumers (Qingdao (China), June 30, 2011)
  • International Symposium: Consumer protection in cross-border E-commerce (Beijing, June 28, 2011)
  • Otto Group: Consumer sovereignty and consumer trust - Consequences for ethical consumption (Berlin, June 9, 2011)
  • Federation of German Consumer Organizations: Examples of a consumer oriented financial services supervision (Berlin, October 25, 2010)
  • Otto Group Stakeholder Dialog: Input from the consumer perspective (Hamburg, October 21, 2010)
  • Beijing Technology and Business University: Consumer Protection in E-Commerce (Beijing, September 21, 2010)
  • UNDP: Internet conference "CSR: Bridge to your consumers" : Input for and moderation of an online-discussion (November 16 to 18, 2009)
  • Daimler Sustainability Dialogue: Expectations on sustainable supply chain management: The consumer perspective (Stuttgart, November 5, 2009)
  • Human Rights Lectures 2009 at the Free University Berlin: Amnesty International, The power of consumers (Berlin, June 24, 2009)
  • OECD: Conference on Corporate Responsibility: The Role of International Standards (Paris, June 15, 2009)
  • Deutsches Netzwerk Wirtschaftsethik: Annual Meeting 2009: CSR in Dialogue with Brands – How to communicate responsibility to consumers? (Bonn, April 25, 2009)
  • Consumer Citizen Network: 6th International Conference: Globalizing Consumer Citizenship (Berlin, March 23, 2009)
  • CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion: Hearing on the reform of privacy regulation (Berlin, March 5, 2009)
  • EU Commission: CSR Multistakeholder Forum: Panel discussion on Transparency and CSR (Brussels, February 10, 2009)
  • Expert forum „Privacy and business” in the Parlamentarischen Gesellschaft: Dataprotection is consumer protection (Berlin, December 17, 2008)
  • Conference „Fair trade – easy done” in Dorothee-Sölle-Haus: What a social label would need to deliver (Hamburg, November 28, 2008)
  • Warenkunde- und Technologietage Berlin 2008: Service quality in the retail sector: Quo vadis? (Berlin, November 7, 2008)
  • German Federal Ministry of the Interior: Hearing on the reform of privacy regulation (Berlin, October 30, 2008)
  • Communication Congress 2008: Corporate Social Responsibility: Panel discussion: Success through engagement (Berlin, October 9, 2008)
  • Bertelsmann Representation Berlin: Experience and Networking Day 2008: Panel discussion: Privacy – Opportunities and risks of current developments (Berlin, July 3, 2008)
  • CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion: Expert hearing on the reform of scoring (Berlin, July 1, 2008)
  • German Federal Ministry of the Interior: Expert hearing on the reform of privacy regulation (Berlin, June 27, 2008)
  • Society for International Development: What consumers expect from business regarding their social responsibility (Berlin, May 29, 2008)
  • German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Quality assurance in the context of the service directive: How do consumers recognise service quality? (Berlin, December 12, 2007)
  • German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Purpose and future of systems providing anonymity in the Internet (Berlin, November 24, 2007)
  • EU Commission: ECCG Competition Working Group: How consumer organizations should deal with consumers’ competition complaints (Brussels, April 24, 2007)
  • German Parliament: Public Hearing of the Internal Affairs Committee on “Modernization of data protection legislation“ (Berlin, March 5, 2007)
  • EU Commission: ECCG Competition Working Group: Competition problems consumers are complaining about (Brussels, January 25 2007)
  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung : Panel discussion on Consumer protection and loyalty cards and RFID-Technology (Wuppertal, December 6, 2006)
  • German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Expert hearing on competition and liberal professions (Berlin, September 19, 2006)
  • EU Commission: RFID Consultation Workshop: Concerns about RFID and ways to address them: A consumer’s perspective (Brussels, May 16, 2006)

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