Dr. Ingeborg Niestroy
Scientific Project Leader
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Ingeborg Niestroy is Project Coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project REAL-DEAL: "Reshaping citizen deliberations for the European Green Deal" since February 2022 - both for the RIFS work packages and the consortium, which consists of 16 partners from research and civil society organisations. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at RIFS, collaborating in the Science Platform Sustainability 2030 and the TD-TEC team (Transdisciplinary Theory, Evaluation and Culture).
Ingeborg is (physical) geographer and completed an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at the TU Berlin, combining planning, political science and law. She has worked for more than 20 years in environment policy and sustainable development, at the interface of science, policy and society - in Europe and internationally. From 1999 to 2012 she was executive director of EEAC, the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils. 2014/2015 she worked as liaison person for the Ministry for Environment and Agriculture of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Representation to the EU. She then worked in different projects, countries and levels on governance for SDG implementation and in 2019 joined the RIFS.
Projects
Groups
- since 02/2022: Project Coordinator of REAL DEAL at the RIFS Potsdam
- 2019-2021: Senior Fellow at the RIFS Potsdam & Science Platform Sustainability 2030 (WPN2030) & Research Group Transdisciplinary Theory, Evaluation and Culture (TDTEC), Potsdam
- seit 2015: Co-founder Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (ps4sd) and Associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Brussels
- 2013-2015: Head of Division EU Policy for the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, Food, Wine-growing and Forestry of Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) at the Brussels Representation
- 2008-2010: Research Fellow at the Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen
- 1999-2012: Executive Director of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC), Wiesbaden, The Hague & Brussels
- 1996-2000: Doctorate in Planning at Technical University of Berlin, with studies at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer. Thesis: Strategic Environmental Assessment as an instrument for environmental integration - Case studies in waterway planning at the river Elbe and the San Francisco Bay
- 1992-1995: Planning office for transport infrastructure and environment, Hannover
- 1990-1991: University of California at Berkeley, USA
- 1983-1990: M.S. Geography at University of Goettingen, Germany. Thesis: Availability of geogenic and anthropogenic heavy metals on arable soils.
- Governance for sustainable development, public administration; geography of governance for sustainability
- Policy coherence for sustainable development and tools like Regulatory/Sustainability Impact Assessment (RIA / SIA)
- Participation and democratic innovation
- EU policies and research for the SDGs, European Green Deal
Publications at the RIFS
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Niestroy, I., Nicholson, S., Charlier, G.. (2020): Contribution of CEI to UN Agenda 2030 and its implementation in CEI Member States. Part 1: The contribution of CEI to Agenda 2030. Part 2: SDG implementation in CEI Member States: analysis of governance elements and recommended steps ahead.
- Niestroy, I., Hege, E., Dirth, E.., Zondervan, R. (2019): Europe's approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: good practices and the way forward. Study commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Development. ISBN: 978-92-846-4578-7 (pdf).
- Niestroy, I. and Meuleman, L. (2016): Teaching Silos to Dance: A Condition to Implement the SDGs. Guest article #59, IISD SD Policy & Practice, 21 July 2016.
- Niestroy, I. (2016): How are we getting ready? The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the EU and its Member States: analysis and action so far. Discussion paper 9/2016, German Development Institute (DIE).
- Hackenesch, C., Kloke-Lesch, A., Koch, S., Niestroy, I., Scholz, I. (2016): Towards the "Sustainable Development Union": Why the EU needs to do more to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. German Development Institute (DIE). Briefing Paper 6/2016.
- European Commission (ed.) / Giovannini, E., Niestroy, I., Nilsson, M., Roure, F., Spanos, M. (2015): The role of science, technology and innovation policies to foster the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Report of the expert group 'Follow-up to Rio+20, notably the SDGs'. Brussels, October 2015.
- Meuleman, L. and Niestroy, I. (2015): Common But Differentiated Governance": A Metagovernance Approach to Make the SDGs Work. In: Sustainability 2015, 7, 12295-12321. Open Access download link; Guest article for IISD, 21 April 2015: http://sd.iisd.org/guest-articles/common-but-differentiated-governance-making-the-sdgs-work/
- Niestroy, I. (2014): Governance for Sustainable Development: How to Support the Implementation of SDGs? In: Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) (ed.): ASEF Outlook Report 2014/2015 - Facts & Perspectives. Volume II: Perspectives on Sustainable Development. p. 154 - 168.
- Pinter, L., Almassy, D., Antonio, E., Hatakeyama, S., Niestroy, I., Olsen, S., & Pulawska, G. (2014): Sustainable Development Goals and Indicators for a Small Planet: Part I: Methodology and goal framework. Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). Singapore.
- Niestroy, I. & Meuleman, L. (2014): Revision of the National Environmental Strategy (NES) of Bhutan. Report of the Start-up phase. Unpublished paper for the National Environment Commission (NEC), Thimpu, 3 Jan 2014.
- Jacob, K., Kannen, H. and Niestroy, I. (2013): Successfully Developing Sustainable Development Strategies - Analysis of Sustainable Development Strategies at International Level (in German). Bertelsmann Stiftung. Guetersloh.
- Niestroy, I., García Schmidt, A., Esche, A. (2013 a): Bhutan: Paradigms matter. In: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.): Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future - The Reinhard Mohn Prize 2013.
- Niestroy, I., García Schmidt, A., Esche, A. (2013 b): Finland: Paving the Way for a Social Contract for Sustainability. In: Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.): Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future - The Reinhard Mohn Prize 2013.
- Bitzer, V., Cörvers, R., Glasbergen, P. and Niestroy, I. (eds.) (2012): European Union, Governance and Sustainability, Open University in the Netherlands. 427p.
- Antonio, E., Hoiberg Olsen, S., Holtsberg, C., Niestroy, I. & Zondervan, R. (2012): Global Architectures for Sustainable Development Delivery: Asia-Europe Strategies for the Earth Summit 2012. Asia-Europe Environment Forum. Singapore.
- Niestroy, I. & Winnicki, T. (eds.) (2011): UNCSD ►Rio 20plus - The "Green Economy" Agenda in the context of SD and Institutional Framework for SD at national level. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of EEAC, 15 - 17 September, 2011, Wroclaw, Poland.
- Niestroy, I. (2011): Sustainable Development Councils at national and sub-national levels stimulating informed debate: Stocktaking. Stakeholder Forum, sdg 2012 series
- [Niestroy, I. (2008): Sustainability Impact Assessment and Regulatory Impact Assessment. In: OECD (ed.): Conducting Sustainability Assessments, p. 67-88. OECD Sustainable Development Studies.] (http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/conducting-sustainability-assessments/sustainability-impact-assessment-and-regulatory-impact-assessment_9789264047266-5-en)
- Niestroy, I. (2006): Achievements and challenges for national sustainable development strategies in the EU: a governance perspective. In: M. Pallemaerts & A. Azmanova (eds.): The EU and Sustainable Development: Internal and External Dimensions, VUB University Press, Brussels, p. 129-156.
- [Niestroy, I. (2005): Sustaining Sustainability - a benchmark study on national strategies towards sustainable development and the impact of councils in nine EU member states. EEAC series, Background study No.2. Lemma, Utrecht. 308p.[(http://www.ps4sd.eu/index.php/en/publications/our-books/115-2005-sustaining)
- Niestroy, I. (2003): The role of Impact Assessments for (environmental) policy integration. In: Meuleman/Niestroy/Hey (eds.): Environmental Governance in Europe. RMNO Background Studies (V.02). Lemma, Utrecht. p. 150-172.
- Niestroy, I. (2000): Die strategische UVP als Instrument zur Integration von Umweltbelangen in andere Politikbereiche - Fallstudien im Bereich Wasserstraßenplanung an Elbe und San Francisco Bay. Dissertation TU Berlin. VWF, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung. Berlin. 326 S. Summary
- Master course "Food controversies", Catholic University of Lille, ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences), 2017
- Presentations at Various UN OSD, UNDP, UN DESA and other international organisations conferences and workshops (since 2012) as well as multiple EU actors' conferences and workshops (EESC, ESDN, JRC..) (since 2002)
- Presentations & guest lectures at Universities: Central European University (Budapest / Vienna), University of Freiburg (Germany), Catholic University of Lille (France), University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Amsterdam, Fletcher School of Governance, Tufts University (Boston), Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany), Free University of Berlin, Open University of the Netherlands
- Ph.D.: Scholarship of the German Environmental Foundation (DBU)
- Post-graduate studies at Berkeley: Scholarship of the University of Göttingen, Germany