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An­nika Sten­ström

Research Assistant

Subjects
Financial institutions Auditing Sustainability Green transition ESG Interest group

Primary research areas

Green Fin­ance
My core re­search in­terest lies with­in the polit­ic­al eco­nomy of green fin­ance. I am par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in the role of ex­perts and or­gan­isa­tions in fin­an­cing the green trans­ition. My re­search fo­cuses on ex­pert net­works and EU sus­tain­able fin­ance, fossil fuels and stran­ded as­sets, and act­iv­ist-in­vestor co­oper­a­tion and con­test­a­tion.
Sustain­ability Re­port­ing Stand­ards
A strand of my re­search fo­cuses on ac­count­ing stand­ard-set­ting and sustain­ability re­port­ing. Draw­ing on Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy Stud­ies (STS) and In­ter­na­tion­al Polit­ic­al Eco­nomy (IPE), I in­vest­ig­ate how stand­ard-set­ters seek to har­mon­ize the space of cor­por­ate re­port­ing and cre­ate a com­pre­hens­ive green ac­count­ing in­fra­struc­ture.
Transna­tion­al Gov­ernance
My broad­er re­search in­terest is re­lated to transna­tion­al gov­ernance, fo­cus­ing on the gov­ernance of glob­al fin­an­cial mar­kets and glob­al en­vir­on­ment­al gov­ernance.
Mixed Meth­ods
My meth­od­o­lo­gic­al tool­box is ec­lect­ic. In my re­search, I draw on both qual­it­at­ive meth­ods (semi-struc­tured in­ter­views, doc­u­ment re­search) and com­pu­ta­tion­al meth­ods (so­cial net­work ana­lys­is, text ana­lys­is, ca­reer se­quence ana­lys­is).

I look for ways green fin­ance can either en­able or con­strain the green trans­ition.

My research is contributing to solving one of the grand challenges of today – climate change – by asking questions related to the role of financial markets in financing the green transition. It contributes to creating knowledge of how green finance works and who it empowers. This is relevant for policymakers, regulators, investors and civil society.  

Outside activities

Cur­rently, I have no out­side em­ploy­ment or activ­it­ies. , -