Student Assistant
Tessa is a Master’s student in Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam. With an undergraduate background in Political Science and Economics, she decided to focus her graduate studies on the intersection of these fields, delving into the ways politics and economics influence each other, especially when it comes to tackling global challenges like climate change.
Her experience in conflict research, including her long-standing involvement with the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, has shaped her interest in the challenge of efficiently allocating climate finance to regions with low governance – a subject she seeks to explore further in her thesis while working alongside the Climate FiGS team.