Caroline is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Her research investigates the EU’s trade-environmental policies, namely environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements and the EU’s autonomous trade-environmental instruments. She also works on the intersection between international environmental and economic governance, in particular the Paris Agreement and trade policy. More broadly, she is interested in international cooperation, institutional design, regime interactions, environmental politics, and international political economy.
Caroline has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and has previously been a visiting researcher at Ghent University. Also, she has been part of Oxford University’s Europaeum Scholars Programme for doctoral candidates.
During her PhD, Caroline investigated trade and sustainable development provisions within the EU’s preferential trade agreements from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on social constructivism, poststructuralism, doctrinal methods, foreign policy analysis, and social network analysis.
In her postdoctoral research, she has extended this focus to the EU’s autonomous trade-sustainability instruments from the perspective of the Global South, investigating the import ban on deforestation-linked products and the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism. These policies have sparked significant political resistance, which she analyses focusing on deeper political dynamics and politics of contestation.
Prior to her academic career, Caroline held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Danish Parliament, and the Ministry of Taxation in Denmark, working on EU affairs, trade policy, and international climate policy.
