About
Elina is a PhD student in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (since 2025). Her research explores the intersection of climate and finance, with a particular focus on the role of states and state-owned institutions in financing the green transition. More broadly, she is interested in the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies and climate-related issues.
Trained as both an economist and a political scientist, Elina uses a wide range of methods — from classical quantitative and qualitative approaches to computational techniques. She holds an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth.
Beyond academia, Elina enjoys running, cooking, bouldering, and reading.
Research interests
- Climate politics and policy
- Climate finance
- Monetary and fiscal policy issues
- Political economy
Affiliations
FiscalFuture
Supervisors
Dr Richard Perkins
Dr Marion Dumas
- Grantham Research Institute Scholarship
- German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- German Academic Exchange Service
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Klaus Hochstetter Foundation
- Expanding Horizons Scholarship (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
Stechemesser, A., Dilger, E. et al. (2024), Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades. Science 385, 884-892. DOI:10.1126/science.adl6547. — mentioned by more than 150 news outlets such as the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Le Monde, El Pa´ıs, and Die Zeit.
Dilger, E., de Ridder, K. et al. (2024), Die Zukunft finanzieren. Youth Budgeting als Instrument für mehr Generationengerechtigkeit in der deutschen Haushaltspolitik. FiscalFuture e.V., Berlin.
Albert, P., Dilger, E. et al. (2023), Mit direkter Demokratie zum 1,5-Grad-Ziel. in Miosga, M. et al. (2023), Wandel erfolgreich gestalten. Möglichkeiten und Ansätze regionaler Transformationsplattformen. Oekom, DOI: 10.14512/9783987262371.