Alexandra Bussler

Alexandra Bussler has expertise in municipal climate protection and adaptation, climate policy and international development and sustainability economics. She specialises in governance and institutional innovation. At Arepo, she is involved in national and international evaluations.

Before joining Arepo, Alexandra Bussler was project manager at the University of Lisbon for the international EUKI project BEACON – Bridging European and Local Climate Action. The focus was on city partnership management, city counselling in the field of climate protection, project implementation monitoring and the development and implementation of multi-stakeholder formats. She gained experience in project evaluation as an external consultant to the Spanish Institute for Youth for the evaluation of EU exchange project applications. As a research assistant in the field of environment, planning and society at the University of Lisbon, she worked on local climate adaptation and climate governance processes. She gained further experience at the Institute of Population and Demography and the German Permanent Mission in Rome, where she was in charge of exchanges with FAO, WFP and IFAD in the field of food security.

As part of her PhD, Alexandra Bussler focussed on transformative innovation in local government and the perpetuation of climate change mitigation and adaptation in local policy. She already focussed on Europe, especially Germany and Portugal, as well as Central and South America in her double master’s degree in Development Economics at the Universities of Lund and Carlos III Madrid with a year abroad in Mexico and research stays in Colombia and Ecuador. During her studies, she learnt various quantitative and qualitative methods, including the development and design of online surveys and interviews.
Due to her professional experience and her degrees, Ms Bussler is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian.