Paul-Hugo Suding (born 23 January 1949 in Vechta, Germany) is an energy economist and international development specialist, living in Saint-Christophe, Aosta Valley region in Italy.
[1] He held numerous long term assignments to countries and development organizations as program director for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, from which he retired in 2014.
Suding has worked since 1973 as researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) at the University of Cologne, and from 1981 to 1989 as Partner in the German consulting firm ENERWA.
[5] In GIZ, he was responsible for various German bilateral energy and environment programs in Burundi (1989–93), China (1999 – 2006) and Egypt (2008 – 2010), financed by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
He also was from 1993-99 the German Director of the Sustainable Energy and Development cooperation program with the Organización Latino Americana de Energía OLADE and ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean).