Nicole Kormann da Silva
Junior Policy Analyst
Personal Profile
Focus
As a Junior Policy Analyst at ZOE, Nicole supports different projects on a just social-ecological transformation, especially on the topics of inequality, rethinking policy design, and governance. In her Master's thesis, she explored social protection policies in Brazil and how more universal and egalitarian social systems can address the structural problems underlying the climate crisis.
Background
Before joining ZOE in January 2022, Nicole gained academic experience in urban studies as a research assistant at the NGO Impact Circles. Back in Brazil, she was a student assistant at the Regional Development Bank of the Extreme South, where she supported research on strategic productive sectors. Nicole holds a Bachelors in Economics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina and a Masters from the Economic Policies in the Age of Globalization (EPOG) programme at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and Paris 13.
The WISE Horizons project seeks to accelerate systemic change towards a new economic paradigm with wellbeing, inclusion, and sustainability at its core.
ZOE supports the Network of Institutions for Future Generations to promote long-term thinking and governance for present and future generations
Changing the ‘how’ of policymaking through new methods and tools
A project which supports four pilot cities through the process of designing and implementing policies for the wellbeing economy, using the Wellbeing Economy Policy Design Guide
Lessons from REPowerEU for crisis management policymaking processes
A framework for policy processes equipped to manage tensions and trade-offs
Future prospects for the Network of Institutions for Future Generations (NIFG)
Origins and current uses