Johannes Brehm is a PhD candidate in the governance programme and affiliated with the Centre for Sustainability at the Hertie School. Moreover, he is a Research Associate with the "Sustainability and Governance" research group at RWI – Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research (Berlin office). Before his PhD, Johannes worked at international organisations (ILO, World Bank) and national think tanks. Johannes holds master's degrees in (Development) Economics from SOAS (London, Master of Science, 2019) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Master of Science 2018) and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from TU Dresden (Bachelor of Arts, 2016). His research focuses on the political economy of the green transition. The overarching objective of Johannes' dissertation is to identify drivers which facilitate and barriers that inhibit the transformation to a low-carbon economy.
Main supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Flachsland
