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We're pleased to share that Timon Forster has been honoured with our 2024 Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for his Paper Selective responses to the climate crisis: International financial institutions and strategic ignorance.
This annual prize is awarded to an early career scholar in recognition of an outstanding Paper presented at our Joint Sessions of Workshops.
The winning paper examines how international financial institutions respond to global warming.
The paper is very innovative and presents a clear and original argument. The basis of the paper is an excellent methodological framework.
It is a very promising paper with a wealth of data and a very appealing argument.
2024 Rudolf Wildenmann Prize Jury
Watch our short video celebrating Timon's achievement as he discusses his work with Christian Haerpfer, Chair of the Jury. Read the full laudation here.
Timon Forster is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Economics and Political Science, University of St Gallen.
Previously, Timon held a research fellowship at Boston University, and earned his PhD in International Relations from the Freie Universitat Berlin. His research examines the political economy of international organisations, with a particular focus on the governance and decision-making of international financial institutions.
Timon's work has been featured in academic journals such as International Affairs, Journal of European Public Policy, and Global Policy. His most recent paper (joint work with Dan Honig and Alexandros Kentikelenis), Formal governance matters: When, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board, has been published with the Review of International Political Economy.
Selective responses to the climate crisis: International financial institutions and strategic ignorance is Timon's groundbreaking paper which applies several cutting-edge text analysis methods to systematically attract and figure out how IFIs communicate about climate change issues.
I am absolutely delighted my paper has been awarded the 2024 Rudolf Wildenmann Prize! The ECPR Joint Sessions provided the ideal setting to engage with a small group of leading scholars in a workshop format, which fostered rich, in-depth discussions. The feedback I received has significantly strengthened my work, and I am grateful for the experience.
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