Dr. Sarah Ryser holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bern, Switzerland and the graduate School Gender Studies Switzerland. The title of her PhD thesis submitted in 2019 is: The Effect of Large-Scale Green Energy Investment on Gender Relations in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
She completed her master’s in social anthropology about perception of climate change effects and German studies as well as a Master of Arts in secondary education. She did fieldwork in Paris, France about riots in outskirts and in Morocco on impacts of climate change in water irrigation systems as well as on a large-scale land acquisition for green energy and its effects on local institutional change and common pool resource management from a gender lens. In that capacity, she wrote various papers with a special focus on Gender, Land, Sustainable Energy, politics of Development and an ethnography for her Dissertation.
