Kenneth Abbott is a leading scholar in international law, specializing in the interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations, including public and private institutions, environmental issues, development policy, global health, and international trade and economic law. At Arizona State University, Abbott is the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; the faculty…

From 2018-2020 Charlotte Ballard was the science communication and public relations officer co-ordinating the media and outreach programme of GLOBALGOALS. She was trained as an evolutionary biologist before moving towards sustainability research and communication. In addition to this role she developed and implemented the communication strategy for the Copernicus Institute as a whole, and is particularly interested in helping researchers…

Karianne Krohn Taranger was a master’s student at Utrecht University, enrolled at the MSc degree in Sustainable Development, following the Earth System Governance track. She holds two bachelor’s degrees in Development Studies and Economics. Her MSc thesis investigated the institutionalisation of climate justice norms in the global climate governance architecture. Specifically, she was conducting a dynamic network analysis of climate…

Matteo Spinazzola was a Utrecht University student enrolled in the MSc Sustainable Development – Earth System Governance, with a BSc in Strategic Science. Within the Global Goals Project, he had co-led a meta-analysis on the Millennium Development Goals and conducted his MSc thesis on the mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union. Through large-scale data analysis and…

Nikki Theeuwes has an interdisciplinary background in Social Science and is a graduate of the Utrecht University MSc Sustainable Development, Earth System Governance track. For her MSc thesis she focused on the political process of policy coherence in food security and climate governance and consequences of these processes for gender equality in the Indian state of Haryana. Read about her…

Tom Peek is a junior lecturer at Utrecht University, and graduate of the MSc Sustainable Development, Earth System Governance track. His MSc thesis focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, and in particular the way in which the United Nations Specialized Agencies, and Funds and Programmes are implementing the Sustainable Development goals. Through a large-scale data analysis and the use of…

Anne Luijten is a graduate of the Utrecht University MSc Sustainable Development, Earth System Governance track. For her thesis she researched SDG 10: reduced inequality. The research is threefold. The first part consists of a negotiation analysis: through discourse network analysis she looks at the actors, conflicts, and coalitions that resulted in the inclusion of this goal in the SDGs.…

Leonie Grob studied Earth System Governance under the Sustainable Development Master’s Programme at Utrecht University. Leonie was the conference manager of the virtual International SDG Research Symposium GlobalGoals2020 that took place in June 2020. She was responsible for the public outreach and the external communication of the GobalGoals project and was a member of the SDG Mid-term Assessment organizing team…

Stan van Ginkel graduated from the MSc Sustainable Development – Earth System Governance Programme at Utrecht University. Stan wrote his Master thesis under the supervision of Frank Biermann and Melanie van Driel on the framing of SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production) in the annual Voluntary National Review mechanism of the UN. He is particularly interested in finding out which targets…

Oana Forestier is a graduate of the Utrecht University MSc Sustainable Development, Earth System Governance track. Her thesis focused on identifying trends in the prioritisation of Sustainable Development Goals by national governments, as well as on exploring the relationship between the development assistance provided by United Nations Specialised Agencies, and Funds and Programmes and prioritisation patterns. To this end, she mapped…