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Professor Karin Bäckstrand

Professor of Environmental Social Science

Karin Bäckstrand is the Principal Investigator of Transformative Partnerships 2030. She leads work package 4 and co-leads work package 3. She is a Professor of Environmental Social Science in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies.

Dr. Magdalena Bexell

Associate Professor

Magdalena Bexell leads work package 3 of Transformative Partnerships 2030. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University.

Dr. Kristina Jönsson

Associate Professor

Kristina Jönsson co-leads work package 4 of Transformative Partnerships 2030. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University.

Professor Philipp Pattberg

Professor of Transnational Environmental Governance and Policy

Philipp Pattberg co-leads work package 2 of Transformative Partnerships 2030. He is a full professor of transnational environmental governance and policy.

Dr. Oscar Widerberg

Assistant Professor

Oscar Widerberg leads work package 1 of Transformative Partnerships 2030. He is the Deputy Department Head and an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Policy Analysis section at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Dr. Faradj Koliev

Researcher

Faradj Koliev leads work package 2 and co-leads work package 1 of Transformative Partnerships 2030. He is a researcher at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.

Dr. Karin Sundström

Postdoctoral researcher

Karin Sundström is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. She is responsible for the project coordination of Transformative Partnerships 2030. She is also a lecturer at Stockholm University.

Cornelia Fast

PhD Student

Cornelia Fast is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Felicitas Fritzsche

PhD Student

Felicitas Fritzsche is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.

Montserrat Koloffon Rosas

PhD Student

Montserrat Koloffon Rosas is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Marie Stissing Jensen

PhD Student

Marie Stissing Jensen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Lund University.

Dr. Ian Higham

Affiliated Researcher

Ian Higham is Research Officer in Environmental Politics at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Until July 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and was responsible for the project coordination of Transformative Partnerships 2030.

Essraa Hussein

Affiliated Researcher

Essraa Hussein is a Project Officer at the Folke Bernadotte Academy and an affiliated researcher of Transformative Partnerships 2030.