Emma Amadi is a Human Geography PhD student, funded by King’s Dr Harold Moody Studentship, with a background in environmental and climate finance and business. She has worked as an analyst at the think tank Planet Tracker, S&P’s Trucost and CDP, researching and assessing climate risks, governance, strategies and opportunities for corporates and financial institutions and campaigning for more sustainable business and finance practice.

Emma holds an MSc in Environmental Technology (Business and Environment) from Imperial College London (2018) and a BA in Geography from the University of Sussex (2014).

Research

Thesis title: 'How are narratives of climate-smart cocoa in Ghana shaped, won and lost?'

Emma's research centres on the ways in which markets are created for sustainable food products, particularly Ghanaian cocoa to understand who profits from these certification schemes. This includes exploring how corporates, NGOs, civil society and the state actors define climate-smart-cocoa and the narratives and counter narratives that shape this debate.

PhD supervision

• Principal supervisor: Professor Sarah Bracking
• Secondary supervisor: Dr Amanda Lenhardt

Further details

See Emma's research profile