International Political Economy of Decarbonization

Dr. Juergen Braunstein was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, where he worked on the Geopolitics of Energy Project. His research focuses on the drivers as well as consequences of the green energy revolution for the global energy composition and its implications for existing and future interstate relations. He is currently working on a book project with Cambridge University Press on the role of finance in the global energy transition. Braunstein is member of Italy's G20 Think20 task force on global health and COVID-19. Previously, he coordinated the New Climate Economy (NCE) finance workstream at the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities research center. Braunstein is the author of Capital Choices: Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth (2019, Michigan University Press). Beyond his peer reviewed publications, he has published numerous articles in media outlets, such as the Financial Times, Forbes, Project Syndicate, and VoxEU. Braunstein was a post-doctoral researcher at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. He holds a PhD in comparative and international political economy from the LSE, a master of research in political science from the LSE, and a BA from the University of Vienna.