Jana Birner was studying the Joint International Master in Sustainable Development at Utrecht University within the Earth System Governance track. Her master thesis investigated the steering potential of the SDGs on the national-level governance architecture. To that end, Jana was conducting a country case study with a focus on the Federal Ministries in Germany. In particular, she researched the influence…

Abbie Yunita is a PhD Candidate within the GLOBALGOALS project. She has an interdisciplinary background in International Studies and Geography, and holds a Master in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Prior to joining the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, she was a Researcher at the Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF), where she worked closely with local stakeholders…

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…

Blake Harvey is assistant Project Manager for the GLOBALGOALS Project. She formerly coordinated the project as a graduate student assistant, managing project outreach to support the launch of the SDG Impact Assessment (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Further, Blake worked for two years as the coordinator of the Earth System Governance Project Taskforce on the Sustainable Development Goals and as a research…

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…