Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek is a Clarendon Scholar and DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is researching the political economy of multi-stakeholder extraction projects. Previously, she earned her MPhil in Russian and East European Studies; she was awarded a distinction and the Michael Kaser Prize for her thesis on EU minority laws.

In addition to her DPhil studies, Cordelia is currently a research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where she is writing on geoeconomics and US and EU climate policy. She is also a fellow with the environmental group in the Kazakhstan Futures Program. Cordelia serves as an associate editor at the forthcoming Law & Geoeconomics Journal.

Cordelia’s research interests include the political economy of climate policy; institutional change; energy resource projects, including low-carbon and rare-earth element extraction; and geoeconomics, specifically trade, regulation, and supply chain dependencies.