Dr. Sabin Bieri

Director of the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern; Switzerland

Sabin Bieri is a sustainability specialist whose professional focus lies with issues of international development, poverty, inequality, and justice. A social geographer by background, she seeks tounderstandprocessesofunevendevelopmentintheNorth-Southcontext, thus framing sustainability transformations from a truly global perspective. The same holds for Sabin’s engagement with the scientific team around the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019, where she contributed to identify relevant levers and entry points for transformation.

Sabin’s mainareas of expertise include labour, agricultural transition, food systems, digital technology and gender relations. Her research builds on field-proven scientific enquiries. This is illustrated by the recently concluded “Research for Development R4D” programme which scrutinized employment in high-value agricultural value chains on three different continents. As project leader she combined dirty-feet science, permanent stakeholder involvement and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological research in the service of grounded results that spurs innovations shared by local communities. Her latest research project focuses on food system transformations in the international cocoa value chain.

Currently she is Director at the Centre for Development and Environment(CDE). She has been instrumental in shaping CDE‘s strategic position and theory of change, thus supporting CDE’s commitment towards engaged scientific knowledge production that truly makes a difference.

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