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Janina Grabs is a Professor of Sustainability Research at the University of Basel since June 1, 2024, leading the Sustainability Research department and responsible for social science teaching in the Master's program in Sustainable Development. Previously, she worked as an Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona (2021-2024) and as a Postdoc at ETH Zurich (2019-2021). She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Münster in 2018, with research stays at Carleton University in Ottawa and Yale University in New Haven. Her dissertation focused on the effectiveness of private sustainability standards in the coffee sector, based on field research in Colombia, Honduras, and Costa Rica, and was published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press in 2020 titled 'Selling Sustainability Short? Private Governance Labor Environment Coffee Sector'. Her research has garnered several awards, including the 2021 Organizations Natural Environment Book Award from the Academy of Management and the 2022 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for the best book in science, technology, and environmental policy from the American Political Science Association. In addition to research and teaching, she is active in international professional associations and is responsible for book reviews in the journal Regulation & Governance.
University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Leading the Sustainability Research department and responsible for social science teaching in the Master's program in Sustainable Development.
ESADE Business School • Barcelona, Spain
Conducted research and taught courses in sustainability.
ETH Zurich • Zurich, Switzerland
Engaged in postdoctoral research on sustainability governance.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.