Dr. Lisanne Groen is a Senior Associate Researcher at the Brussels School of Governance. She is also an assistant professor in international environmental governance at the Open Universiteit in Heerlen, the Netherlands. She focuses on national, EU and international climate change (adaptation and mitigation), energy and biodiversity policy. Lisanne obtained a BA in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2007) and a MSc in Political Science (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam in 2010. She obtained her PhD in political science on 13 October 2016. From November 2016 until November 2018, she worked in Tokyo, Japan, as a JSPS-UNU postdoctoral researcher, on ‘European low carbon technology transfer policies’ at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS).
Lisanne joined the Brussels School of Governance in April 2012 as a junior researcher. She worked on a PhD project funded by the Flemish Research Foundation FWO, entitled: “Understanding the Changing Effectiveness of the European Union in International Biodiversity and Climate Change Governance”. Lisanne received the UACES Prize for Best PhD Thesis in Contemporary European Studies 2017.
