On Saturday 16 December, the Académie royale de Belgique hosted the reception ceremony for its new Associate Members and the new Members of its Collegium, including Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Romain Weikmans.
Dr Weikmans was recently appointed Associate Professor in Global Environmental Governance at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he is affiliated with the REPI (Recherche et Études en Politique internationale), a research unit of the ULB Department of Political Science.
In 2012-2013, Romain Weikmans was awarded a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to carry out a year of doctoral research at the Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford), on a project entitled “Vulnerability to Climate Change: Beyond the Techno-economic Approach”. He earned his PhD in Environmental Sciences and Management from ULB in 2015.
As stated on his personal website, his research is mainly in the field of global climate governance, with a focus on international climate finance, climate transparency, and climate adaptation. He has published widely on these topics, including in Nature Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Global Environmental Politics. Coverage of his work can be found in Nature, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and various other news outlets. He is a lead author of the 2020 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). From 2018 to 2021, he was the Vice-Chair of the Working Group ‘Energy-Climate’ of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development.
For his work with journalists on climate change, he is among the laureates of the 2023 ULB Scientific Dissemination Prize, also awarded to Wiener-Anspach Alumnus Corentin Caudron (G-Time Laboratory, Faculty of Science, ULB), whom we would like to congratulate.
For more information on Romain Weikmans’ research and activities, you can visit his personal website.