I am a broadly educated social scientist who’s research focuses on future-oriented monetary and fiscal policy, with a particular emphasis on climate. As a trained economist and political scientist, I possess a wide skill set ranging from classical quantitative to qualitative and machine learning methods.I joined Oxford as an MPhil student of European Politics and Society in 2023. Before this, I studied Philosophy, Economics and Protestant Theology at the Universities of Bayreuth and Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of Granada, Spain.
Beyond academia, I am leading a project for the NGO FiscalFuture and the German Ministry for Family Affairs, the Elderly, Women and Youth on intergenerationally just fiscal policy. I am also committed to climate activism, co-founding Klimaentscheid Bayreuth, a local NGO engaged in a citizens' referendum and Germany's first local climate lawsuit. Furthermore, my passion extends to fostering equal opportunities in education and beyond. I am a mentor at Project Access and initiated a diversity initiative within my undergraduate program at the University of Bayreuth.
Research Interests
- Climate Politics and Policy
- Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Political Economy
Professional Experience
During my undergraduate studies, I worked on climate and energy foreign policy as an intern at the German Ministry of Finance and the German Federal Foreign Office. Furthermore, I held positions as a research assistant at the Chair of International Competition Policy and tutor for the Macroeconomics II lecture at the Chair for Money and International Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Additionally, I contributed to climate policy evaluation as a research assistant at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) at the FutureLab "CERES: Political Economy for Inclusive Wealth Governance and Sustainability" in cooperation with the "Climate Econometrics "project based at Nuffield College, Oxford. My work at PIK was published in the Science article “Climate Policies That Achieved Major Emission Reductions: Global Evidence from Two Decades” in August 2024. I also wrote my bachelor's thesis in corporation with the PIK under the supervision of Dr Nicolas Koch, examining the policy reactions of 30 European states to the energy crisis, with a specific focus on transport policy.
Publications & Research Papers
Stechemesser, A., Dilger, E. et al. (2024), Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades. Science 385, 884-892. DOI:10.1126/science.adl6547. — mentioned by more than 150 news outlets such as the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Le Monde, El Pa´ıs, and Die Zeit.
Dilger, E., de Ridder, K. et al. (2024), Die Zukunft finanzieren. Youth Budgeting als Instrument für mehr Generationengerechtigkeit in der deutschen Haushaltspolitik. FiscalFuture e.V., Berlin.
Albert, P., Dilger, E. et al. (2023), Mit direkter Demokratie zum 1,5-Grad-Ziel. in Miosga, M. et al. (2023), Wandel erfolgreich gestalten. Möglichkeiten und Ansätze regionaler Transformationsplattformen. Oekom, DOI: 10.14512/9783987262371.
Dilger, E. & Koch, N. Europe at the Crossroads: The Energy Crisis as a Turning Point in Transport Policy? An Empirical Analysis of 30 European Countries. Under Review.
Languages
My mother tongue is German. Besides that, I am fluent in English (C1) and Spanish (B2).
Scholarships
- German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- German Academic Exchange Service
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Klaus Höchstetter Foundation
- Expanding Horizons Scholarship (Corpus Christi College)
