Kathrin Keil has been a project scientist at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in the research cluster “Sustainable Interactions with the Atmosphere” (SIWA) since September 2013. She is predominantly working on the SMART (Sustainable Modes of Arctic Resource-driven Transformations) project, which focuses on stakeholder engagement and governance challenges in resource-driven transformations in the Arctic, and the feedback effects between Arctic and non-Arctic regions. Kathrin received her PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2013. In her thesis she researched the international politics of the Arctic, with a focus on international regimes and institutions in the areas of energy, shipping, and fishing. She is also active within the Arctic Institute (http://www.thearcticinstitute.org), where she regularly writes about and comments on current Arctic developments. Kathrin has also participated in meetings of the Arctic Council Task Force on Black Carbon and Methane as part of the official German observer delegation to the Arctic Council.