Felicitas Fritzsche PhD student

Felicitas Fritzsche is teaching on the courses International Politics, Analytical Perspectives, and Analysis of Democracy.

Felicitas Fritzsche's research interests are global sustainable development governance; 2030 Agenda; multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Her dissertation is situated within the Transform 2030 project on the transformative potential of partnerships to achieve the 2030 Agenda. She is particularly interested in the role of the United Nations in partnerships for sustainable development.

Academic publications

Higham, I., Bäckstrand, K., Fritzsche, F., & Koliev, F. (2024). Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Promises and Pitfalls. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49(1), 475–500. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-051823-115857

Hickmann, T., Biermann, F., Sénit, C.-A., Sun, Y., Bexell, M., Bolton, M., Bornemann, B., Censoro, J., Charles, A., Coy, D., Dahlmann, F., Elder, M., Fritzsche, F., Gehre Galvão, T., Grainger-Brown, J., Inoue, C., Jönsson, K., Koloffon Rosas, M., Krellenberg, K., … Weiland, S. (2024). Scoping article: Research frontiers on the governance of the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Sustainability, 7, e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.4

Fritzsche, F., & Bäckstrand, K. (2023). Global Diplomacy and Multi-stakeholderism: Does the Promise of the 2030 Agenda Hold? In P. W. Hare, J. L. Manfredi-Sánchez, & K. Weisbrode (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation (pp. 703–729). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10971-3_35

Fritzsche, F. & Beisheim, M. (2022). The UN High-level Political Forum on Ssutainable Development: an orchestrator more or less? Global Policy, 13(5), pp. 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13112

Beisheim, M., Bernstein, S., Biermann, F., Chasek, P., van Driel, M., Fritzsche, F., Sénit, C.-A., & Weinlich, S. (2022). Global Governance. In F. Biermann, T. Hickmann, & C.-A. Sénit (Eds.), The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals (1st ed., pp. 22–58). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082945.003

Non-academic publications

Guest Article, April 2026, International Institute for Sustainable Development, "Reviewing HLPF: Focus on What is Needed to Implement SDGs by 2030 and beyond" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Main Article, October 2023, Vereinte Nationen, "Die Agenda 2030 zur Halbzeit: Bilanz und nächste Schritte" (co-author with Sabine Weiland)

Guest Article, January 2021, International Institute for Sustainable Development, "Networked Multilateralism: ECOSOC and HLPF Reviews as Window of Opportunity" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Blog, January 2021, Peace Lab Blog, "Für einen vernetzten Multilateralismus" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Article, February 2021, Global Policy Forum, "ECOSOC und HLPF Review 2021: Bau- und Andockstellen für einen vernetzten Multilateralismus" (co-author with Marianne Beisheim)

Conference Presentations

Presentation at the Nijmegen Conference on Earth System Governance (24.10.2023), "International institutions and best practices on multi-stakeholder partnerships"

Presentation at the Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance (23.10.2022), "UN meta-governance for MSPs – fit for transformation?"

Presentation at the ECPR General Conference (24.08.2022), "UN meta-governance for MSPs - fit for transformation"

Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Academic Council of the United Nations (27.06.2020), "HLPF: Fostering Transformative Partnerships?" (co-presenter with Marianne Beisheim)