Climate Risk Management in Europe and the World.
Grace Ballor is assistant professor of international economic history at Bocconi University. Her research interests include the international political economy of modern and contemporary Europe, the economic consequences of climate change, and the intersections of global capitalism and global governance.
At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Ballor will develop her new project on the risk management of climate change in the European Union. She will investigate how a) the risk of climate change and its ownership have been debated and contested by various actors in the EU since the 1990s, b) climate change and the management of climate risk have shaped European economies. This project aims to re-narrate the history of European cooperation, deconstruct the EU’s claim to be a global climate leader, and write an economic history of climate change.
Ballor earned her Ph.D. at UCLA and has held research fellowships at the European University Institute, the Geneva Graduate Institute , Harvard Business School, LMU Munich, and the Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich.
During her sabbatical leave in 2025-2026, she is also visiting professor of history and environmental research at Sciences Po Paris in partnership with Université Paris Cité.
This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.
Climate Risk Management in Europe and the World.
Ballor, G. Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market, Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming). https://www.graceballor.com/enterprise
Ballor, G. “Marketizing Climate Risk: An Actuarial History of the EU’s Emissions Trading System,” European Review of History, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2025.2507055
Pitteloud S. and Ballor, G. “The Rise and Fall of Private Advocacy Forums from 1945 to the Twenty-first Century,” Socio-Economic Review, (forthcoming).
