All Team Members

Francesco Saverio Montesano was a PhD candidate within the GLOBALGOALS project. He has a strong International Relations background, and holds an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, he worked as a researcher at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague and at the College of Europe in Bruges, where…

Alexia Faus Onbargi is a PhD Candidate within the GLOBALGOALS project.

Melanie van Driel was a PhD candidate within the GLOBALGOALS project. A political scientist by training, she specialized in International Relations – studying China, Central Eurasia, the MENA region and the post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe – and policy and governance at the University of Amsterdam, with a focus on the political economy of energy. She worked as a lecturer at…

Maya Bogers was a PhD candidate within the GLOBALGOALS project. She obtained her MSc in Innovation Sciences at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, where she specialised in quantitative models and network analysis to measure the effects of innovation and economic policies, at the regional, national and international level. Before returning to the Copernicus Institute, she worked for the Dutch government…

Dr. Carole-Anne Sénit is a political scientist by training, with a career spanning both research on and practice in the civil society sector. She obtained her PhD on civil society participation in the negotiations on the SDGs from Utrecht University, under joint supervision from the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).…

Thomas Hickmann joined the GLOBALGOALS Team and the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University as a post-doctoral researcher in July 2019. His research is mainly concerned with the question of how societies can adequately deal with common pool resources, i.e. which institutions (broadly understood as organizations, regimes, and norms) need to be in place in order to overcome…

Dr Marjanneke Vijge is an assistant professor with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development.

Dr Rakhyun E. Kim is associate professor of Global Environmental Governance.

Dr Agni Kalfagianni is full professor of Transnational Sustainability Governance.

Fronika holds a PhD in climate change and sustainable development policies from the University of Lisbon in Portugal and conducted research on environmental justice and indigenous knowledge incorporation in polycentric climate governance in the Amazon. She has ample multi-country experience on the science-policy-society interface and holds a transdisciplinary and intercultural perspective on sustainability governance. She has also worked as a…