The core team of the TRANSGOV project is based at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands.
Aarti Gupta is principal investigator of the TRANSGOV project. She is a Professor of Global Environmental Governance with the Environmental Policy Group, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University. Her research is in the field of global environmental and climate governance, with a focus on transparency and accountability and the challenges of anticipatory governance of novel technologies, including climate engineering. She has published extensively in these fields, including the edited volume, Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives (2014, MIT Press). She holds a PhD from Yale University and is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Earth System Governance Research Alliance.
Robert Bergsvik has a background in political science and international relations, with a focus on critical political economy and global governance. Originally from Norway, he has a master`s degree in political science from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Before joining Wageningen University, he was a research fellow with the Science Communication & Society group at Leiden University, where he analysed the culture of public engagement at Dutch research institutions. He is one of two TRANSGOV PhDs, with a focus on unpacking widely assumed linkages between climate transparency, trust and accountability. He is also assessing how the advent of digitally-enabled ‘radical transparency’ upends these relationships.
Max van Deursen has a background in environmental science and global governance. He has a master’s degree in Climate Studies from Wageningen University with a specialization in climate policy and sustainable development diplomacy. Through engagement in several UN conferences as the Dutch youth representative to the UN and as an intern at the UNFCCC secretariat Max has first-hand experience with climate negotiations. He is one of two TRANSGOV PhDs, with a focus on assessing how participation in climate transparency arrangements relates to domestic climate action. He will also critically examine the workings of two key transparency mechanisms under the UNFCCC: the Enhanced Transparency Framework and the Global Stocktake.
(Oct 2023 – June 2024)
Hyeyoon Park is a postdoctoral fellow in the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. Her research focuses on norm development interacting with power politics in global environmental governance with an empirical focus on mineral resource extractions and climate finance. She published multiple academic pieces on the topic, including China in Transnational Extractives Governance (2023, Global Environmental Politics). Prior to joining Wageningen University, she was a postdoc at Lund University in Sweden and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Colorado State University in the USA. In the TRANSGOV project team, she investigates the development of climate-related disclosure of financial institutions through the UNFCCC global climate regime. In doing so, she aims to examine multilevel political dynamics from the interface between the public- and private authorities in developing the financial sector’s climate transparency and its effects
Rohan Agarwal is a junior researcher at the TRANSGOV Project, working jointly at the Public Administration and Policy, and Environmental Policy groups at Wageningen University & Research. He explores climate change adaptation, climate justice and transparency reporting processes, especially in the Global South. By tapping into big data through textual analysis, machine learning and AI, Rohan uncovers insights that help shape more equitable climate governance.
Alice Rotiroti is an MSc graduate in Climate Studies with a specialization in Climate, Society, and Economics from Wageningen University & Research. She has expertise in international environmental policy, sustainable development, and climate negotiations. Alice has served as an intern at the UNFCCC’s WIM ExCom, where she assisted with climate negotiations and developed communication strategies. She is currently a junior researcher at TRANSGOV, focusing on loss and damage, while also supporting project communication efforts. Alice is also involved with the Italian Climate Network, where she contributes to social media campaigns and writes on climate change and feminist topics.
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