Katharina Weber is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and LUISS University. She is a fellow of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action – Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) GEM-DIAMOND, a research project assessing the EU’s capacity to act, given the mounting normative dissensus in democratic institutions. 

Her research focuses on the EU’s external action against deforestation governance and the EU’s legislative process. In particular she explores how the EU navigates tensions between external and internal influences in pursuit of its environmental governance. 

Research expertise

• EU External Action
• Environmental Governance
• Civil Society Activism
• Deforestation
• EU Trade Policy
• Norm Contestation
• Experimentalist Governance