Dr. Barbora Sedova

Barbora Sedova (co-)leads the FutureLab - Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration at PIK. In her work, she analyses mechanisms and contextual effects of climate impacts on human (im)mobility and risk of conflict. The overarching goal of her research is to minimize the risks to peace and security in a changing climate. She applies approaches from econometrics,  geospatial analysis and systematic literature review.

Barbora earned her PhD in Economics at Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and the University of Potsdam. She has conducted research stays at Columbia University and Yale University. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Tilburg University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics and Social Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.  Barbora has also held various research and advisory positions, namely at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Netherlands, the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, German Bundestag and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. 

  * lead /corresponding author

2023

Hoffmann, Vinke and Šedová (2023)
Strengthening the science–policy interface in the climate migration field
International Migration

2022

Martin et al. (2022)
Ten new insights in climate science 2022
Global Sustainability

Zander et al. (2022)
Topic Modelling Exposes Disciplinary Divergence in Research on the Nexus between Human Mobility and the Environment.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

2021

Hoffmann, Šedová and Vinke (2021)
Improving the Evidence Base on Climate Migration: Methodological Insights from Two Meta-Analyses.
Global Environmental Change

2020

Šedová,* B. and Kalkuhl, M. (2020)
Who are the Climate Migrants and Where do They Go? Evidence from Rural India.
World Development

2019

Šedová,* Kalkuhl and Mendelsohn  (2019)
Distributional Impacts of Weather and Climate in Rural India.
Economics of Disasters and Climate Change

2016

Šedová (2016)
On causes of illegal waste dumping in Slovakia
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

German Federal Foreign Office
Project lead & Co-PI
Project title: PREVIEW
Project duration: 2022-2025
Partners: Kompetenzzentrum Krisenfrüherkennung (KompZ KFE) an der Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBw M)

German Federal Foreign Office
Project lead
Project title: Weathering Risk: A Climate and Security Risk and Foresight Assessment
Project duration: 2020-2023
Partners: adelphi

 

11/2020 Berlin Institute of Technology (Berlin, DE)
Guest Lecture in Economics of Climate Policy, Conflicts and Migration in a Changing Climate

07/2020 National Bank of Slovakia (Bratislava, SK)
Lecturer for Economics Summer School, Econometric Methods for Impact Analysis

University of Potsdam (Potsdam, DE)
2016-2019 Teaching Assistant, Economics of Climate Change
2017 Teaching Assistant, Research Papers in Environmental Economics

09/ 2016 Cusanuswerk (Papenburg, DE)
Instructor for Summer Academy, Workshop on DICE model (in German)

Scientific talks:

• 2022 The Economics of Migration - Junior Seminar
• 2022 Applied Young Economist Webinar
• 2021 Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference 
• 2021 Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• 2021 Summer Conference of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) 
• 2021 The Economics of Migration - Junior Seminar
• 2020 EAERE
• 2020 Global Open Series in Environmental Economics (invited)
• 2019 EAERE (Manchester, UK),
• 2019 EAERE FEEM VIU summer school (Venice, IT)
• 2019 CESifo Summer Institute (Venice, IT)
• 2018 Potsdam Research Seminar in Economics (Potsdam, DE)
• 2018 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Gothenburg, SE)
• 2017 5th PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics (Potsdam, DE)
• 2017 Impacts World (Potsdam, DE)
• 2017 EAERE (Athens, GR)
• 2017 Annual Conference on Development Economics and Policy of German Economic Association (Gottingen, DE)

Stakeholder and public dialogue:

• 2022 Preview Conference of the Federal Foreign Office
• 2022 USAFRICOM Climate Security Symposium
• 2021 NYU’s PractitionersWorkshop on Conflict EarlyWarning/Early Action
• 2020 25th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
  
• 2020 Berlin Climate and Security Conference (BCSC)
  

Binder et al. (2022)
Climate Risk Profile Somalia

Binder et al. (2022)
Climate Risk Profile Iraq

Binder et al. (2022)
Climate Risk Profile Jordan

Nagarajan et al. (2022)
Weathering Risk climate, peace and security assessment: Mali

Detges et al. (2020)
10 Insights on Climate Impacts and Peace