Sarah Giest
Professor Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability
- Name
- Prof.dr. S.N. Giest
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9084
- s.n.giest@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8201-6943
Sarah Giest is a Professor of Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability at the Public Administration Institute of Leiden University. She has been developing an interdisciplinary research agenda and teaching on using a policy lens to look at technical, environmental and social solutions that shape sustainable societies.
More information about Sarah Giest
PhD Candidates
News
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Sofie Hajer wins prize for research on balancing wind energy and biodiversity -
Experts share future vision at Data for Policy 2025: ‘Data centres must become not only smarter, but also cleaner’ -
‘Digital services lean heavily on the social infrastructure’ -
Grant worth millions for research on the socio-economic impact of hydrogen transition -
New YAL board: ‘Make sure young academics’ voices are heard’ -
Leadership change at Young Academy Leiden -
Hybrid Intelligence: Making the unknown visible for Humans and AI -
Sarah Giest Vice-Chair of the Young Acadamy Leiden -
Book: The Capacity to Innovate: dynamics in clusters and cluster policy -
Governments working with one hand tied when it comes to data on vulnerable groups -
FGGA members for Young Academy Leiden -
Making policy with big data
Research & Teaching
Sarah Giest is passionate about research and teaching at the intersection of innovation and environmental as well as social sustainability through a policy lens. With training in Public Policy and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies, Sarah has published extensively and has become an expert for international organizations. To shape the field in particular around innovation policy, Sarah published the book The Capacity to Innovate. Sarah also focuses on the challenges of the early-career research community in different capacities by participating in university-wide and international conversations.
Sarah is the Vice-President of the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) and on the Editorial Boards of Data & Policy and Policy Design and Practice and acts as an expert for national and international organizations, such as Dutch Ministries, the OECD, the European Commission or the UN. She is also the former (Vice-)Chair of the Young Academy Leiden.
Before coming to Leiden in 2014, Sarah received her PhD with honors from Simon Fraser University (Canada) where she focused on regional innovation policy of governments in Asia, Europe and North America.
Professor Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Public Administration