Katharina Weber is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and LUISS University. She is a fellow of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action – Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) GEM-DIAMOND, a research project assessing the EU’s capacity to act, given the mounting normative dissensus in democratic institutions. Her research focuses on the EU’s legislative process and deforestation governance. The working title of her thesis is “Contesting national sovereignty? Transnational civil society activism and EU external action against deforestation.”

 E-mail: katharina.weber@gem-diamond.eu

CV:

Ph.D. Candidate at University of Amsterdam and LUISS University (2022-2025)
M.A. in Public Policy (MUNDUS MAPP), Central European University and IBEI. (cum laude, 2022)
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Bucerius Law School. (2019)
Research areas: EU External Action, Environmental Governance, Civil Society Activism, Deforestation, EU Trade Policy, Norm Contestation, Experimentalist Governance

Publications:

Weber, K. (2023). Preferential Trade Agreements – an effective policy tool in climate change governance?. IBEI Student Paper Series. (granted the Final Research Project Awards)

Zangl, M., Weber, K., Zahid, M. U., & Holzner, M. (2021). Environmental Impact Evaluation of a European High-Speed Railway Network along the “European Silk Road”,. In F. Cerniglia, F. Saraceno, & A. Watt (Eds.), The Great Reset: 2021 European Public Investment Outlook (Vol. 10). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0280