About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), with support from the Carlsberg Foundation.

My research investigates the EU’s trade-environmental policies, namely climate provisions in EU preferential trade agreements and its unilateral instruments. I also work on the intersection between international climate and economic governance, in particular, interlinkages between the Paris Agreement and trade policy. More broadly, I’m interested in international cooperation, institutional design, regime interactions, climate change politics, and international political economy.

I hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and have previously been a visiting researcher at Ghent University. Also, I’ve been part of the University of Oxford’s Europaeum Scholars Programme for doctoral candidates. 

In my PhD, I analysed trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements, with a particular focus on climate aspects and the drive for more robust enforcement. The research integrated frameworks and insights from social constructivism, poststructuralism, foreign policy analysis, doctrinal research, and social network analysis to provide a more nuanced understanding of how TSD chapters fit into the EU’s broader trade-sustainability agenda, how they are designed, what purpose they serve, and what impact they have.

In my postdoctoral research, I have extended this focus to the EU’s unilateral trade-environmental instruments, specifically the carbon border adjustment mechanism and the regulation on deforestation-free products, from the perspective of trade partners in the Global South. These measures have triggered significant political contestation, which I explore through a mixed-methods, cross-domain approach that moves beyond surface-level variables (e.g., economic impact and strategic discourse) to chart the nuances in Global South partners’ perceptions and contestations of these policies. In doing so, I reflect on how the EU might have designed more legitimate instruments and consider the implications for global governance more broadly.

Prior to my academic career, I held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Danish Parliament, and the Ministry of Taxation in Denmark, where I worked on EU affairs, trade policy, and international climate policy.