Dr. Marcel Dorsch

Marcel works at the interface of science and politics, mainly on conceptual and practical problems of global sustainability policy.

Since 2021, he has been a senior researcher at the President's office of the German Environmental Agency (UBA) focusing on strategic priorities for a sustainable digital age. In this capacity, he is UBA’s focal point for the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) as well as co-coordinator and co-author of the CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age. In 2025, he has been the German negotiator for the UNEA-7 resolution on Environmental Sustainability of AI Systems.

Before UBA, he has been the global governance researcher at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and co-author of the WBGU expert reports (incl. WBGU, 2019: Towards Our Common Digital Future). He worked at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and holds a PhD for a thesis on polycentric sustainability governance at the Technical University Berlin.