Bio

Aleksandra Wojewska is a sowi:docs fellow of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences. In her PhD, she focuses on price-making in cobalt and lithium Global Production Networks (GPNs) and associated outcomes for mineral producer countries. She holds an MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Aberdeen. Prior to her position at the University of Vienna, she worked as a Junior Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). She conducted extensive field work in several African and Asian countries (DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Mongolia, Malaysia) in mining, forestry and agriculture sectors.

CV Aleksandra Wojewska

Reasearch Focus

• Global Value Chains and Production Networks
• Critical Minerals in Africa
• Financial Markets and Financialization
• Corporate Power and Socio-Ecological Transformations
• Natural Resources, Commodification and Commodity Markets
• Industrial Policy

Publications

Staritz, C., Tröster, B., & Wojewska, A. N. (2024). Price-making in provisioning systems and social-ecological transformation? The cases of the electric vehicle metals copper, cobalt, and lithium. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 20(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2024.2327667

Wojewska, A. N., Staritz, C., Tröster, B., & Leisenheimer, L. (2024). The criticality of lithium and the finance-sustainability nexus: Supply-demand perceptions, state policies, production networks, and financial actors. The Extractive Industries and Society, 17, 101393.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101393

Wojewska, A.N., Staritz, C., Tröster, B. (2023). Price-determination and -setting in global production networks of critical metals - The London Metal Exchange, price reporting agencies and trading platforms, submitted to Economic Geography, in review process. Published as ÖFSE Working Paper 75.
https://doi.org/10.60637/2023-wp75

Singh C., Wojewska A.N., Persson U.M. and Bager S.L. (2022). Coffee producers’ perspectives of blockchain technology in the context of sustainable global value chains. Front. Blockchain, 5,955463.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2022.955463

Wojewska, A.N., Singh, C., Hansen, C. P. (2021). A policy tool for monitoring and evaluation of participation in adaptation projects. Climate Risk Management, 33, 100326.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100326

Kraehnert, K., Lehmann-Uschner, K., Groppo, V., Bertram-Huemmer, V., Fluhrer, S., and Wojewska, A.N. (2020). Coping with Shocks in Mongolia household panel survey, Waves 1-5. Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, National Statistics Office of Mongolia, and German Institute for Economic Research.

Other published texts   

Towards tax justice: African Group's pivotal role in UN Tax Convention negotiations (2024, VIDC Spotlight)

Kritische Rohstoffe: Gefragtes Lithium – Ein Sektor zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Spekulation (2023, InfoBrief AK Wien)

From mines to financial markets: Tracing price-setting across scales in cobalt and lithium global production networks (2022, The Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences Blog)