BIO

I am a teaching fellow at the London School of Economics, teaching courses on international political economy, environmental politics and international business. I am finishing my PhD in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,  where I researched private sustainability standards in the cut flower sector in Kenya, under the co-supervision of Professor David Sylvan (Political Science) and Professor Jean-Louis Arcand (Economics). For the academic year 2018/2019 I was based in Seattle, USA as a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington, where I worked with Professor Aseem Prakash.

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I was born in the Netherlands. While I was studying for my bachelor's degree in Utrecht I went on exchange to Rhodes University in South Africa. It was there that I got interested in Political Economy when taking a course on Economic Diplomacy in the World Trade Organization (WTO). I did a master's in International Relations in Amsterdam and a master's in Political Economy at the University of Essex in the UK. After finishing my masters I interned for 6 months at the WTO in Geneva. During my PhD I did an internship at the Trade and Environment Program at the International Trade Center (ITC).

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My current interests outside work are road biking, running, dancing, meditation, singing, painting and spending time with friends. 

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