I am a Ph.D. fellow at the department of Global Studies, where I research European politics, political economy and history with a focus on the use of the concept of sustainability in the EU. My interest in these areas was cultivated both during my university studies and through my work in the civil service, where I have, among other things, worked with the sustainability agenda in the fields of finance and business policy.

My Ph.D. project examines how sustainability has become a central political concept in the European Union, the self-proclaimed “global frontrunner of sustainability,” since the 1970s. The project seeks to show how the concept is contested and used to serve a legitimacy-creating function in European politics. The results can raise awareness of how sustainability is employed by policymakers to promote specific political and economic interests and ideas of the “good life/society.”