Starting next week, I’ll be the new “Road to Rio+20″ Project Manager at Peace Child International. My job will be to get young people from all around the world involved in the upcoming UN summit on sustainable development taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

I’ll be based in Buntingford, UK, until at least November 2011. If you think that in this new role I can be of any help, or if you think you can contribute meaningfully to what I’m about to start working on, please get in touch!

When I was a student at TU Delft I used to think that I would never attend a conference on infrastructures and economic governance such as the one that our faculty was hosting yearly. Little did I know. A few days ago, I was one of the speakers in the 13th Economics of Infrastructures Conference, held in honor of the two 2009 Nobel laureates in economics, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. I talked about my experience at the UN and tried to draw some reflections on international governance of sustainable development issues, especially in relation to the frameworks developed by Ostrom in her research on common pool resources and policentricity. Ostrom herself attended the workshop I was speaking on and vigorously nodded when I referred to (and applied correctly, apparently) some of the concepts from her work. You can imagine my satisfaction!

Here are the slides I used to accompany my talk: