Wyss Academy for Nature — Political Economy Retreat

The Wyss Academy retreat in Bern brought together the Political Economy and Sustainable Development team to step back from day-to-day work and think carefully about long-run research questions. Several of the projects I'm now developing — around state authority, indigenous resistance, and natural-resource governance — took clearer shape during those days in Switzerland.

Beyond the work itself, the retreat was a reminder of why interdisciplinary collaboration matters: the questions we care about don't respect the boundaries between economics, political science, and environmental research, and neither should the methods we bring to them.