Martje Köppen
Other affiliations
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Environmental Law Discussion Group
Biography
Martje Köppen is a Dean's Scholar at the Faculty of Law and the Ann Kennedy Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall, reading for her DPhil in Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. She researches the (contested) role of law in the 'Net Zero' transition, with a particular focus on EU legislation governing Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Martje is a visiting researcher at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and at the European University Institute (EUI).
Alongside her doctoral work, Martje has contributed to the development of the German government’s negative emissions strategy (German: 'Langfriststrategie negative Emissionen'). Before joining Oxford in 2023, she worked within the German government on the design and implementation of Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) (German: 'Förderrichtlinie Klimaschutzverträge'), an innovative climate policy aimed at supporting the decarbonisation of heavy industry.
Martje holds a German law degree from Bucerius Law School (Scholar of the German Government) and graduated as valedictorian from the MSc in Environmental and Energy Technology at Imperial College London, where she received the President's Trust Imperial Scholarship and the Turing Scholarship.