Ingrid Boas
Ingrid Boas MSc (Political Science) works as a researcher at the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam. She is a research fellow with the Global Governance Project and is part of the MANUS research group.
Ingrid holds a Master of Science degree (cum laude) in political science from the VU University Amsterdam (2008). In her studies she focussed on International Relations and Governance within the European Union. Topics of special interest were human rights and climate change. In her Master thesis she examined the workings of policy discourses within EU-policy.
Before joining IVM in 2007, Ingrid has been an intern at the Editorial Office of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) and at the department of Political and Cultural Affairs at the Royal Netherlands Consulate-General in Barcelona.
At the Institute for Environmental Studies, Ingrid is currently conducting research on climate governance, in particular global adaptation governance, and participatory practices in Dutch water management. She is the coordinator of the Climate Refugee Policy Forum of the EU-based Global Governance Project; coordinator of the Amsterdam-based research activities of the Earth System Governance Project, a ten-year global research programme under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change; and manager of the 2009 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
Contact
Ingrid Boas can be reached at:
Ingrid Boas
Institute for Environmental Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1087
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: Ingrid.Boas@ivm.vu.nl