Biography

With a background in Socio-Economics and Gender Studies, I began my career with a firm commitment to challenging the dominance of neoclassical mainstream economics in Vienna and London. With my most recent role at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose having been embedded in the context of Western European climate politics, I observed how dominant economic imaginaries are often positioned as objective common sense, excluding alternative viewpoints. Decolonial perspectives, in particular, remain significantly underrepresented and subordinated to national economic interests. During my Politics and International Studies PhD, I seek to investigate the barriers to a more pluralist engagement with the economics of climate change in Western European electoral politics. I intend to explore which economic imaginaries become side-lined and how this exclusion occurs. By focusing on decolonial economics, I hope to contribute to the decolonisation of national political economies, without which the green transition in Western Europe risks perpetuating inequalities at the expense of Global South countries.

Previous Education

London School of Economics & Political Science (Un Gender (Sexuality) 2021
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna Univ of Ec & B Economics and Socio-Economics 2020