Persons

Alberto Bortolotti is a doctoral researcher in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polytechnic University of Milano. His research focuses on the interactions between spatial planning and real estate finance with implications in urban development, cohesion policy, and housing studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Public Governance Institute of KU Leuven and the Department of Human Geography, Planning, and International Development of the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the academic environment, he worked as a junior architect, planner, policy advisor, and researcher, for both public and private institutions such as the Italian Ministry of Culture, the European Parliament, and the Feltrinelli Foundation. He is a social-democratic activist and Vice-President of the Young European Socialists (YES).

JiMin Nam holds a Master of Philosophy in Social Anthropology from University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests intersect feminist studies, queer studies, social movement, (in)equality, critical race theory, and migration studies. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Underwood International College, Yonsei University, South Korea.

Dr Dániel Muth has recently finished his PhD in Public Policy at Central European University, Vienna. He is a junior fellow at the Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest. In April 2024 he is joining the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as postdoc researcher. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of global carbon-pricing mechanisms.

Dr Cleo Davies is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, working on EU-UK relations from a comparative perspective, and Senior Tutor at the University of Edinburgh. Her research expertise centres on EU institutions and organisational decision-making.