Carsten Elsner

Education and Academic Training

• 2016 - 2017: M.Sc. Political Economy of Development, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
• 2014 - 2017: B.Sc. Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 2012 - 2015: B.A. Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Professional Experience

• Since 09/2022 at the Wuppertal Institute
• 2017 - 2022: Research associate in the BMBF research project Glocalpower, University of Kassel, Germany
• 2015/2016: Internship at the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Kathmandu (Nepal)
• 2014 - 2016: Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (Germany)

Dissertation Project

• Standardization processes in "green" finance and the EU taxonomy, University of Hamburg

Research Focus

• International Climate Policy: Design and Implementation of Article 14 of the Paris Agreement on the Global Stocktake
• Global energy transition processes
• Climate finance and the "green" financial sector

Teaching

• 2018 - 2019: Political Economy of Africa, University of Kassel