Franka Huhn
Franka Huhn is a Policy Officer at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, where she works primarily on the Re-Valuing Blue Natural Capital initiative. Bringing together interdisciplinary thinking, the initiative seeks to advance the recognition and re-valuation of Blue Natural Capital by embedding the ocean’s natural capital within global economic, financial and legal systems, to support its sustainable governance and management.
Background
Franka’s academic and professional background spans environmental and natural resource economics, international development and ocean policy. Before joining LSE, she worked as a policy analyst at the OECD in the Development Co-operation Directorate on climate, biodiversity and ocean finance. She has also held roles at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, the European Commission, and the German development bank KfW contributing to research and policy work on sustainable development, blue finance, as well as policy evaluation.
Franka holds an MSc in Policy Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a French–German double bachelor’s degree in Management and Economics from the University of Paris Nanterre and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Research interests
- Blue natural capital and sustainable ocean economies
- Sustainable development and international development policy
- Evidence-based policy evaluation