Marlene Terstiege

University of Toronto

Based in

Canada
North America

Marlene is a third year PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, studying International Relations and Public Policy. Her research focuses largely on global environmental politics. She is currently involved in research projects on the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, the effects of intertwined crises like Covid19, the war in Ukraine, or inflation on climate policymaking, and on the political economy of private auditors in transnational sustainability governance. In her dissertation, she looks at why space for climate activism is narrowing globally. Marlene holds a MSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam as well as a BA from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, her hometown.