Wichtige Stationen in Ausbildung und Lebenslauf

09/20 – 11/2020 Short-term project-based Editor and Researcher am ZOE Institut, Bonn

10/2016 – 09/2019 Master of Arts: Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Universität Witten/Herdecke

02/2016 – 08/2016 Praktikatin Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn

02/2016 – 07/2016 Junior Professional Officer at ICLEI Africa, Cape Town 

02/2015 – 10/2018 Master of Science: Environmental Economics, University of London, Distance Learning Programme

02/2012 – 12/2014 Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Economics, University of London, Distance Learning Programme

12/2012 – 01/2014 Praktikatin bei Umvoto Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

02/2007 – 12/2011 Bachelor of Science: Majors in Economics and Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town

Dance and movement facilitator for students with disabilities (volunteer)

Capacity building assistance for a local, rural community on climate change adaptation, sustainable land management and food security (Umvoto Africa)

Sprachen
Englisch, Deutsch, Afrikaans

Arbeits- oder Forschungsschwerpunkte
Postgrowth Economics: exploring complementarity of Socio-economic, Postgrowth and Ecological Economic theory.

Dissertation

Exploring complementarity of Socio-economic, Postgrowth and Ecological Economic theory in order to foster coherent, sustainable and socially inclusive economic alternatives.

This thesis seeks to rigorously explore the alternative forms of economic organization that may be viable under the starting premise of a doubly embedded economy, in which economic activity is guided by the overarching principles of both social equity and ecological health and sustainability. Given that the fragmented policy areas and goals of economic and ecological health and function tend to diverge from one another and currently require starkly means conflicting to be attained, it has become critical that these structural frictions be addressed to avoid approaching and further overstepping of relevant tipping points. Kate Raworth provides a solid starting point to this end, in her proposition of a Doughnut Economy which rearranges the design of economic systems to work towards common goals through coherent, mutually reinforcing means. “The challenge now is to create economies – local to global – that help to bring all of humanity into the Doughnut’s safe and just space” (Raworth, 2017, p. 62). Using this as a basis I consider various economic perspectives and proposals and examine their compatibility with this goal of double embeddedness, such as some of those put forth in Ecological Economics, Socio-economic and Postgrowth approaches. Reconciling these schools or the thematic areas they share and highlighting either their differences or similarities may serve to strengthen the general conviction in favour of making decisive incremental changes in the interests of equity and sustainability, or assist in identifying and perhaps adopting a new path.