Lucrezia Nava

Lucrezia is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Corporate Social Responsibility at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London.
 

She holds undergraduate and Masters’ degrees inManagement and International Management from Bocconi University in Milan and CEMS Master in International Management and she completed her PhD in Management Sciences at Esade Business School in Barcelona, in the department of Society, Politics and Sustainability. 

In her PhD, Lucrezia studied how organisational members interpret and respond to the natural environmental stimuli such as climate change or natural disasters, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her study contexts have been cocoa producers in Brazil and Japanese companies.

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After her PhD, Lucrezia joined the University of Cambridge Judge Business School as a Research Associate to support an European Union funded project aiming at assessing the realistic potential of negative emissions technologies and practices, with a focus on investigating the stakeholders’ perceptions about these solutions. She is also a Research Associate at Hughes Hall college at the

University of Cambridge.

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Academic Positions

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BAYES BUSINESS SCHOOL (CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON), London, UK, Sept 2022

JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE), Cambridge, UK, Feb 2021 – Sept 2022

Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Energy Policy Research Group)

Project: NEGEM (Horizon 2020), Quantifying and Deploying Responsible Negative Emissions. The aim of this project is to inform policy making by assessing the realistic potential of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and its contribution to achieving climate neutrality. The project is highly interdisciplinary and carried out by a consortium of 16 partners, with the support of the EU Horizon 2020 Program funds.

Role: to conduct original analysis of the political economy of CDR technologies in comparative context, to examine social license to operate of different CDR technologies through surveys, interviews, text analysis of reports, expert elicitations and workshops with experimental design involving NGOs, government representatives, and companies in the energy and agroforestry sectors, to explore the framing of different CDR technologies, to understand the political limitations on scaling up of different configurations, to design realistic CDR deployment scenarios working closely with other partners in the project.

HUGHES HALL (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE) Cambridge, UK, Sep 2021 – Feb 2023

 Research Fellow