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Felicitas Fischer is a staff member at NADEL focusing on development economics. Her research interests encompass governance issues in the natural resource sector, particularly regarding conflict and state-building processes. She emphasizes the local impacts of large-scale resource extraction and advocates for curbing illicit financial flows. Her work includes formalizing small-scale mining and analyzing the geopolitics of commodity trade. As the coordinator for the course on Natural Resource Governance and Energy Transition, she collaborates with the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) to implement the Resource Impact Dashboard (RID), a policy tool designed to measure local development impacts of the extractive sector and enhance evidence-based dialogue between mining companies and communities. Felicitas has previously worked with the Swiss Development Agency and various NGOs in Peru and Colombia, dealing with topics such as gender, conflict, agriculture, and vocational training governance. She holds an MSc in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict, and Development from SOAS University of London and serves as a board member of the feminist peace organization Frieda, advising on international cooperation matters.
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