Romain Weikmans

Associate Professor of International Politics and Climate Change at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Romain Weikmans is Associate Professor ("Chargé de cours") of International Relations at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels. He is affiliated to REPI, a research unit of the Department of Political Science at ULB. His research is mainly in the field of global climate governance, with a focus on international climate finance, climate transparency, and climate adaptation. He has published widely on these topics, including in Nature Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Global Environmental Politics. Coverage of his work can be found in Nature, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and various other news outlets. Romain Weikmans earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Management from ULB in 2015. He has conducted research and taught at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, at Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab (Providence, RI, USA), and at the Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University). He was a lead author of the 2020 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (WG2). From 2018 to 2021, Romain Weikmans was the Vice-Chair of the Working Group ‘Energy-Climate’ of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development. In 2023, he was elected as a Member of the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for a five-year term. Webpage: romainweikmans.be Email: [email protected] ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Romain_Weikmans Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PaqQU1gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Experience

  • Non-Resident Senior Researcher at Brown University Climate and Development Lab
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Membre du Collegium (Classe Technologie et Société) at Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Université libre de Bruxelles (9 yrs 9 mos)
    • Associate Professor / Chargé de cours
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Adjunct Professor / Maître de conférences
      Sep 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      "Climat : sciences et politiques" (partim) - Master en Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement

    • Adjunct Professor / Maître d'enseignement
      Sep 2018 - Aug 2022 · 4 yrs

      "Questions de politiques environnementales dans les pays du Sud" (24h) - Master en Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement

  • Finnish Institute of International Affairs - FIIA (Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Research Fellow
      Oct 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs

    • Visiting Research Fellow
      Sep 2021 - Sep 2021 · 1 mo

  • Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Policy Research
    Feb 2023 - Mar 2023 · 2 mos