Daniel Lindvall

Daniel Lindvall has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stockholm University and is a Senior Researcher at the Climate Change Leadership Initiative at the Department of Earth Sciences in Uppsala University. His research mostly focuses on the interrelation between climate change and democracy, but he is also conducting research climate governance, just transition, climate policy acceptance, and energy policies, with a particular focus on energy democracy and energy justice. He is involved in a research...See more

Daniel Lindvall has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stockholm University and is a Senior Researcher at the Climate Change Leadership Initiative at the Department of Earth Sciences in Uppsala University. His research mostly focuses on the interrelation between climate change and democracy, but he is also conducting research climate governance, just transition, climate policy acceptance, and energy policies, with a particular focus on energy democracy and energy justice. He is involved in a research project on fair transition and on wicked problem governance, comparing science-policy interaction in climate and Covid-19 governance. Lindvall has worked in the Swedish government offices for several years and has severed as a Deputy Director at the unit for Democratic Affairs. He was the principal inquiry secretary for the Swedish Government's Democracy Commission from 2014 to 2016, and for three additional governmental inquires. He has moreover worked as an advisor in different international organizations, such as the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union Police Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has previously published books in Swedish, such as Folkstyret i r�dslans tid and Upphettning: Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid . He has published a chapter in Democracy in a Hotter Time , edited by David Orr, as well as several articles in various journals and newspapers. See less