My research investigates the EU’s trade and environmental policies, namely climate provisions in its preferential trade agreements and its autonomous trade-environmental instruments. I also work on the intersection between international climate and economic governance, in particular interlinkages between the Paris Agreement and trade policy. More broadly, I’m interested in international cooperation, institutional design, regime interactions, and international political economy.
In my PhD, I analysed trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements, with a particular focus on climate aspects and the drive for more robust enforcement. The research combined elements from social constructivism, poststructuralism, foreign policy analysis, doctrinal analysis, and social network analysis to offer a more nuanced understanding of these provisions.
In my postdoctoral research, I have extended this focus to the EU’s autonomous trade-environmental instruments from the perspective of the Global South, specifically the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism and deforestation regulation. These policies have sparked immense political resistance, which I investigate by applying a layered, cross-domain approach that goes beyond surface-level variables (economic impact and strategic discourse) to chart the nuances in Global South partners’ political objections and attitudes toward these policies.
Prior to my academic career, I held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Danish Parliament, and the Ministry of Taxation in Denmark, working on EU affairs, trade policy, and international climate policy.
