Core team

Emma Colven

Emma is an assistant professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. As an urban geographer and political ecologist, her research explores themes of urban adaptation, speculative urbanism, flood risk and water crises. You can read more about her work here.

emmacolven@ou.edu

CS Ponder

CS Ponder is an assistant professor of geography at Florida State University. Her research is concerned with understanding the racialization of urban finance, and the implications for environmental justice. Her current research project uses a comparative lens to understand the urban political ecologies of the Detroit and Puerto Rico bankruptcies.

csponder@fsu.edu

Fritz-Julius Grafe

Fritz-Julius is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Social and Cultural Geography unit at the University of Zurich. His work focuses on the intersection of urban infrastructure, finance, and climate change. He is currently working in the SNF Project  "The Urbanization of Global Climate Finance". You can find out more about Fritz’s work here.

fritz-julius.grafe@geo.uzh.ch

Enora Robin

Enora is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Her work focuses on the role of different forms of finance (including market and non-market finance) in shaping climate action and low-carbon energy transitions in cities. You can find out more information about Enora’s work here.

e.robin@sheffield.ac.uk

Hanna Hilbrandt

Hanna is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich. In addition to researching urban climate finance, Hanna's work explores spaces of mundane transgression, planning conflict, and housing marginality. Her new book Housing in the Margins is forthcoming with Wiley 2021. You can find out more about Hanna’s work here.

hanna.hilbrandt@geo.uzh.ch

Zac Taylor

Zac Taylor is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. They research urban climate risk governance within the financial system and across three contexts (South Florida, Singapore, and the Netherlands). Zac’s recent work can be found in Environment and Planning A and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

z.j.taylor@tudelft.nl

Sarah Knuth

Sarah is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Her research investigates the contemporary intersection of neoliberal urban and infrastructural development strategy; emerging programs for green economic development, clean energy transition, and climate change resilience; and ongoing transformations in the global financial system. Find more information about Sarah’s work here.

sarah.e.knuth@durham.ac.uk