Sophie Seiser

Sophie Seiser is a master's student in Environmental Policy at Sciences Po in Paris. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of climate change, sustainability, and economic policy. Sophie has a BSc in Business and Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she specialized in finance and sustainability and completed a thesis analyzing the impacts of fiscal and monetary responses to the 2007/08 financial crisis on wealth and income inequality in the United States.

Professionally, Sophie is contributing to a research project at Sciences Po, which focuses on sufficiency in urbanization. She also gained experience at the European Green Deal Unit of the Energy Community, analyzing renewable energy developments.

Her current interests include ecological economics, climate governance, sustainable urban sustainability and policies enabling equitable socioeconomic transitions compatible with planetary limits.