Livia KALIL

Livia Kalil de Jesus is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) at Sciences Po. She is part of the research project “Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods and Effects”, coordinated by Charlotte Halpern, Emmanuel Combet and Antonin Pottier, in partnership with ADEME.

She holds a PhD in Political Science and specializes in the political sociology of public action, with a focus on environmental and climate policies and policy instruments. Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the Centre for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA), examined the decarbonization of agriculture in Brazil, focusing on the agri-business sector. Her research analyzed how ecological transition objectives—often framed as sectoral or national trajectories—are translated, negotiated, or resisted through concrete policy instruments and governance arrangements.

Using qualitative and comparative methods, her doctoral work explored the interactions between public authorities, economic actors, and policy instruments, highlighting the tensions between environmental objectives, productive constraints, and institutional configurations. This dissertation provides the empirical and theoretical foundation for her current research on ecological planning and state coordination in the context of the ecological transition.

Her postdoctoral research focuses on contemporary forms of ecological planning, with particular attention to their institutional configurations, modes of intersectoral and multi-level coordination, and their effects on public action and policy instruments.