PhD Charlotte Sophia Bez

Charlotte Sophia Bez joined RD5 and the CERES Project as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2022. Within the project, her work focuses on the political economy realities and barriers to just transitions in selected industrializing countries. She is part of the Climate Policy and Development working group located in Berlin. She is also co-leading the CSSN project "Peddling false solutions: corporate carbon management and climate delay strategies'' with Brown University, jointly with Thomas Klug. 

From 2024 to 2025, she has been Fulbright Schumann and Joachim Herz scholar at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School New York, where she worked on just transition and environmental justice topics. She remains visiting scholar with the New School.  In spring 2024, she has been visiting the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, as part of a cross-continental research grant by the Environment for Development Initiative.

Prior to joining PIK, Charlotte analyzed the political and economic obstacles to climate policy with a focus on acceptability and equity considerations. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, a joint program with the UCA-University of Cote d’Azur, Nice, France. In the Summer of 2022, she was visiting scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Moreover, she is an associated researcher at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, the Bureau of Theoretical and Applied Economics (BETA), Strasbourg, France, and fellow at Bocconi Lab in European Studies (BLES), Milan, Italy.