Josefina Lehnen
Fellow
Josefina Lehnen joined RIFS in February 2025 as part of an Exposé Scholarship by the German Academic Foundation. She graduated with distinction from the master's progamme in Development Studies at the University of Oxford in 2024. For her thesis, she explored the concepts of green extractivism and ecolgical democracy following a popular consultation against metallic mining in Ecuador. During her stay at RIFS, she will work on her dissertation proposal focusing on alternative understandings of a Just Transition that centre the realities and demands of the Global South. Before coming to RIFS, she has also worked with GIZ, Oxford Net Zero, and the Oxford Department of International Development.
2024 Intern in the project Platform for Multi-Actor Partnerships for the Agenda2030, GIZ 2024 Research Assistant Oxford NetZero and Oxford Department for International Development 2022 - 2024 Master of Philosophy in Development Studies, University of Oxford 2022 Intern at the Welthungerhilfe 2021 - 2022 Student Assistant at the Maghreb, Mashreq and Gulf Policy Unit, Freie Universität Berlin 2017 - 2021 Bachelor of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
- Socio-ecological transformation
- Just Transition
- Green extractivism
- Green state theory
- Sustainable development
- Latin America
- Eugene Havas Memorial Prize for the best overall performance in the MPhil Development Studies at the University of Oxford