Description
Sander Chan, PhD, is a political scientist specialising in transnational climate action and global environmental politics at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and adjunct assistant professor at the Copernicus institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. His research areas include: public-private partnerships, sustainable development, orchestration of transnational action, and corporate voluntary environmental behaviour. Sander is a steering committee member of Galvanizing the Groundswell of Climate Actions, a network of experts that facilitates a series of open dialogues, aiming to bring the groundswell of climate actions from cities, regions, companies, and other groups to a higher level of scale and ambition. Sander is founding member of the NELD Platform on Non-Economic Loss and Damage, which draws attention to losses and damages that defy quantification and/or monetization, but still matter to people. Sander obtained his PhD from VU University Amsterdam in September 2014, authoring his thesis on the emergence and effectiveness of Partnerships for Sustainable Development in global and local implementation/
Location
Bonn, Germany
