Project Team

Dr. Amandine ORSINI – POLLEN Module’s Academic Coordinator

Amandine Orsini is Prof. of International Relations at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and Guest Professor at the Institute for European Studies of ULB. She teaches courses on international relations, international organisations and Energy and Environmental Policies of the EU. In 2020, she co-edited a volume inspired by the POLLEN Module entitled EU Environmental Governance. Current and Future Challenges (with E. Kavvatha, Routledge, 2020). She also published two handbooks: Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Politics (with JF Morin, Routledge, 2020), and Global Environmental Politics. Understanding the Politics of the Earth (with JF Morin and S. Jinnah, OUP, 2020). She is a member of, among others, the international network Earth System Governance and organises annually the WIRE workshops series. She is Academic Coordinator and teaches the POLLEN’s training session.

Alicia DEL POZO – Research and Teaching Officer

Alicia Del Pozo is a Research and Teaching Officer at the Institute for European Studies (IES) and the Centre of Research in Political Science (CReSPo) at UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. She is helping to implement the “EU Environmental Policies and Law (POLLEN)” programme, awarded by the European Commission and included in the EUGLOBALGREEN Jean Money Chair, by assisting on its preparation, research and teaching. 

She holds a Double Bachelor’s Degree in Laws and International Relations (IE University, Spain), and a Master’s Degree in International and EU Laws (Maastricht University, Netherlands) with a special focus in sustainability, agriculture, food, and climate change law. Prior to joining the IES and CReSPo, she was a Policy Trainee at the Council of the EU for the Unit working on Animal Welfare and Plant Health, Food and Forestry, within the Directorate-General of Agriculture. 

She is focused on contributing to the international and EU legal and policy framework related to the sustainable transition, climate change and the environmental, food and health crises by conducting meaningful research, teaching and engaging in policy work. 

Thérèse DAVIO – Project Officer

Thérèse Davio holds a Law degree from Université catholique de Louvain.

At IES UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, she assists in all aspects of management, supports in the preparation of EU Projects’ Design and helps increase student involvement in and public awareness of IES UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles research activities. With Frédéric Tirot, she is one of the Project Officers in charge of the POLLEN academic affairs, research dissemination and budgetary issues.