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…

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…

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…

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…