Elisabeth Hege is a senior research fellow in the Governance program and Coordinator of Ukama: The Africa-Europe platform for sustainable development thinkers. Her work focuses on Africa-Europe cooperation around issues like Just energy transition partnerships and green industrialisation. She has worked extensively on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including via the integration of SDGs in national budgets. She also works on the future of multilateralism and international governance for sustainable development and has followed the international annual follow-up of SDG implementation at the High Level Political Forum in New York and the negotiations of a global pact for the environment in Nairobi.
She also followed the negotiations around the Global Pact for the environment.
Elisabeth graduated from SciencesPo Paris with a degree in international development and previously studied political and economic sciences at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Her master thesis is on the following topic:"Scaling up Social Innovation for Sustainable Development? The allocation of roles in community-corporate partnerships for renewable energy projects in the EU ". During her studies, she did several internships abroad (India and Morocco), followed by a post-graduate internship in Paris with Tilia, a consulting firm specializing in energy, water and environment.
She is a New Economics Fellow at Zoe Institute for Future-fit Economies.
