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 its preferential trade agreements and its unilateral trade-environmental 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.
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 combined elements from social constructivism, poststructuralism, foreign policy analysis, doctrinal research and social network analysis to offer a more nuanced understanding of how these provisions 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 from the perspective of the Global South, specifically the carbon border adjustment mechanism and deforestation regulation. These measures have sparked intense political contestation, which I investigate by applying a mixed-methods, cross-domain approach that goes beyond surface-level variables (economic impact and strategic discourse) to chart the nuances in Global South partners’ perceptions of, and political objections to, these policies.
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.
