Nicolai Schulz – BIOPOLISTA.de

Dr. Nicolai Schulz

email: nicolai.schulz(at)hu-berlin.de
phone: +49(0)30 2093 46313
fax : +49(0)30 2093 46321

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department für Agrarökonomie
Fachgebiet Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik
Philippstraße 13 – Haus 12 A
D-10115 Berlin

Research Interests

Comparative Politics of Development
Development Economics
Bioeconomy Policy
Industrial Policy
Industrial Policy
African Politics

Education

10/2016 – 03/2020: PhD in International Development (London School of Economics and Political Science [LSE])
09/2015 – 09/2016: MRes in Development Studies (LSE)
10/2013 – 09/2014: MSc in Development Studies (LSE)
10/2009 – 03/2013: BA Politics and Administration (University of Konstanz)
02/2011 – 07/2011: Visiting Student (Faculty of Politics and Administration, Universidad de Granada)

Work Experience

07/2020 – 02/2023: Research Associate within the BMBF-funded research project PolDeRBio, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thaer-Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Agricultural and Food Policy Group
08/2018 – 07/2020: (Postdoctoral) Research Associate and Co-lead ofthe ‘Defining and Measuring Political Settlements’ project (EffectiveStates and Inclusive Development Research Centre [ESID], University of Manchester)
01/2017 – 07/2018: Research Consultant (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester)
09/2016 – 01/2017: Research Assistant to Editor (Journal of Development Studies)
01/2015 – 03/2015: Visiting Researcher (German Development Institute [DIE])
2014 & 2017: Consultancy on Tanzanian Human Development Reports 2014 & 2017 (Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania)
05/2015 – 07/2015: Consultancy in project “CADESAN – Fortalecimientode Capacidades para la Descentralización en los Países Andinos” GIZ, Peru)

Current Research Projects

BIOPOLISTA: Bioeconomy Policy Implementation in Bioeconomy States – The Junior Research Group addresses the lack of a comprehensive perspective on the implementation of bioeconomy policies by combining policy analysis approaches with the historical-institutionalist concept of the „bioeconomy state“. On this basis, it examines divergent patterns and causes of bioeconomy policy implementation successes and failures within and across six countries with significant bioeconomies and emerging bioeconomy states (namely, Colombia, France, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, and the United States of America). Duration: March 2023 – February 2028.

Journal Articles

‘Using political settlements analysis to explain poverty trends in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania‘ (2022, with B. Chinsinga, E.H. Weldeghebrael, T. Kelsall, and T.P. Williams) World Development, 153
‘The Politics of Export Restrictions: A Panel Data Analysis of African Commodity Processing Industries’. (2020) World Development, 130.
‘Dangerous Demographics? The Effect of Urbanisation and Metropolisation on African Civil Wars, 1961–2010’. (2015) Civil Wars, 17:3, 291-317

Books

‘Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, and Policy‘ (2022, with T. Kelsall, W. Ferguson, M. v. Hau, S. Hickey, & B. Levy) Oxford University Press

Other Publications

‘Governing Clean Energy Transitions in China and India’. (2017, with K. Isoaho and A. Goritz)
in Arent, D., Arndt, C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. and Zinaman, O. (eds)The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. Oxford, UK: OxfordUniversity Press.