On March 1st, Robert Bergsvik and Susanne Konrad, joined the project as PhD researchers.

Robert will focus on the political economy of transparency in global climate politics, and the link between transparency, accountability and trust. He will also explore the role of ‘radical transparency’, i.e. how the global climate policy process engages with real-time information generated by new digital technologies and non-state actors.

Susanne will focus on the scope and political effects of proliferating capacity building initiatives for climate transparency, exploring the experiences of developing countries, emerging economies as well as donors. We warmly welcome the two into the TRANSGOV project!

In January of this year, the TRANSGOV project prepared to launch with the combined power and input of two Postdoctoral Researchers. Ina Möller, formerly a PhD Student at Lund University, arrived at Wageningen University and will contribute to the project’s research and administration.

We were also delighted to welcome Romain Weikmans as a visiting fellow at the Environmental Policy Group from January – April 2020. Romain is a global project associate of TRANSGOV and is currently working with Aarti Gupta on the project’s transparency database and related first article.