Dr Saskia van Wees holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Florida and previously worked on international trade issues for a government affairs firm. Her research interests include global climate governance, the politics of global performance indices, and issues related to climate justice and equity. Saskia recently published “Interpretive Methodologies, Quantitative Methods, and Comparative Environmental Politics” (2021) with J. Samuel Barkin and V. Miranda Chase in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics.