Visiting Fellow
Energy politics, climate governance, infrastructure development, political participation, North Africa (especially Tunisia)
German, English and French (fluent); Arabic (basic)
Philipp Wagner is a visiting fellow in the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a doctoral researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg, where he works on the techno-politics of Tunisian-European renewable energy and green hydrogen connectivity. As part of his research, he has conducted extensive field research in France, Germany, Tunisia and at COP28 in Dubai. Previously, he worked in think-tanks and in policy advice, with a focus on climate, energy politics, and stakeholder engagement.
Wagner holds a German-French master’s degree in applied political science from the University of Freiburg and Sciences Po Aix. He is also affiliated with the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) at the University of Tunis and the Rachel Carson Center (RCC) in Munich. His work has been published, for example, in dis:orient, the TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research, and in Megatrends Afrika.
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