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        Fedra Vanhuyse

        Head of Division - Societies, Climate and Policy Support

      • fedra.vanhuyse@sei.org
      • @FedraV
      • +46 70 263 7153
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      Fedra Vanhuyse is Head of Division – Societies, Climate and Policy Support at SEI HQ, leading teams of sustainability researchers on the team cities, communities, and consumption; the team water, coasts and ocean; and the team environmental policy and strategy.

      She is passionate about cities, food, and people, and tries to combine these topics in her research portfolio. Currently, she is investigating how cities can become climate neutral and what funding that would require in the Viable Cities’ Finance project, funded by Viable Cities. She also leads a project on circular cities, funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova, where the aim is to develop a tool that will allow cities to measure their circularity level and assess the societal consequences of a transition to a more circular economy, including what it would mean for employment, community cohesion, political systems and access to goods, energy and services. She is Principal Investigator of CANDIES, a research project that looks at how digitalisation can be utilised to support more sustainable food systems and sustainable food consumption and production.

      Prior to working in research, she worked for a municipal government in the UK and supported social economy enterprises and programmes in Belgium. Also in the UK, she led parliamentary inquiries for the UK House of Commons, and evaluated government programmes and projects on value for money.  She lived in the Philippines for five years, leading a Decent work programme for a labour rights NGO, and worked in P.R. China as a teacher for a year. She worked with governments, trade unions and social movements on capacity building and monitoring and evaluation systems in Cambodia, India and Rwanda.

      She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Food Economics from the University of Reading, UK; an M.A. in Conflict and Development from the University of Ghent, Belgium; and an M.Sc. in Applied Economics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is certified in project management (Prince2) and in contract and commercial management (IACCM).

       

      Publications by Fedra Vanhuyse

      • Information as an enabler of sustainable food choices: A behavioural approach to understanding consumer decision-making
      • Accelerating the transition to a circular economy through impactful and actionable research
      • Economic evaluation of a conditional cash transfer to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya
      • The role of private market capital in financing sustainable cities: investor and municipal views in a Swedish context
      • Effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (Afya credits incentive) to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial
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      Perspectives by Fedra Vanhuyse

      • The role of information and consumer behaviour in the food system
      • The right to food: a global cry for urgent action towards sustainable food systems

      Featured stories with Fedra Vanhuyse

      • Technical solutions for climate neutral cities
      • The pivotal role of cities in the sustainability transition
      • Can labels shift our food consumption patterns?
      • Financial instruments for investing in sustainable cities
      • The circular economy – a tool for reaching an inclusive, carbon-free world?
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      Projects and tools with Fedra Vanhuyse

      • Material Assets Valuation: Estimating Risks and Impacts of Climate Change (MAVERIC)
      • Urban Circularity Assessment Framework
      • Accelerera mot Agenda 2030: kommunal planering för minskade klimatfotavtryck
      • Accelerating Agenda 2030: municipal planning for reduced climate footprints
      • Viable Cities' Finance
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