PhD Student
Oluwatosin Olowookere is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, working on the ClimateFiGS project. Driven by a passion for equitable climate solutions, his research explores the political economy and institutional dynamics of climate finance allocation in the Global South, focusing on how donor finance instruments, recipient vulnerabilities, climate ownership, and governance structures shape policymakers’ decision-making. Using a positivist approach, he investigates how climate finance is allocated amidst competing needs, conditionalities, and national priorities, and how these decisions shape climate outcomes in recipient countries. His work leverages quantitative methodologies, including survey experiments, panel econometrics, and natural language processing, to bring new insights on climate finance dynamics.
Oluwatosin holds an MSc in Social Protection from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, where his thesis utilised dynamic panel econometrics to evaluate the impacts of development finance on health outcomes—a foundation for his current research. His prior experience in climate finance research, monitoring and evaluation at German development agencies like DEval and GIZ enables him to bring a practical perspective to his academic work.
His interests include impact evaluation, climate and environmental policy, development economics, political economy, and research methodology.
