Four new PhD students to the department

Annika Hilgert

Annika Hilgert is a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), an international non-profit research institute that tackles climate, environment and sustainable development challenges, and an industrial PhD student at the department. Annika’s PhD is part of an interdisciplinary Formas-funded project called “Mobilizing Private Investment for Climate and Nature in LLMICs: Learning from Investors' Perspectives on Risk, Return, and Blended Finance (MPICaN)​”.

Annikas research focuses on the role of donor-funded governance interventions to reduce investment risks by creating an enabling institutional environment and the interactions between providers and recipients of capacity-building, technical assistance, and knowledge-sharing projects.

Kai Greiner

Kai Greiner did his Bachelor’s in Mannheim and Double Degree Master’s in Konstanz and Göteborg in Political Science and European Studies. Based on this education, Kai is focused on quantitative ways to research public opinion, specifically towards issues regarding the European Union. As a PhD student he will work on examining the drivers of public support for EU Enlargement.

Kai has experience as a research assistant in Germany working with large datasets and conducting statistical analyses.

Tove Sternehäll

Tove Sternehäll is an economic historian with a master’s degree in Global Political Economy from Stockholm University. She joins the project ‘Tracking Gendered Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Sweden, 1850-1950,’ and is especially interested in gendered distribution of assets and their relative valuation in the long-run.

Minna Ålander

Minna Ålander is a new industrial PhD student in the project “Resilience or Rupture? Nordic Security Communities in an Age of Antagonistic Threats (NORDSECURE)” and works concurrently as an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (UK), a Non-resident Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (USA), and an ECFR Council Member.

Previously, Minna worked at the foreign policy institutes in Finland and Germany and holds a master’s degree in international relations from Berlin and Potsdam.