Dr. Laima Eicke is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of the energy transition, decarbonizing global value chains and green industrial policy. She is a former Associate and Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Germany Ministry for International Affairs, NGOs and in consultancy.