Current position

since August 2023
Research assistant and PhD student in the research group "Economic Geography and the Global South", Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez, Department of Geography, University of Cologne
 

Research Focus

Global Production Networks & Global Financial Networks
State Capitalism & Geopolitics
Green Finance & Renewable Energy

Regional Focus

Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Vietnam

Teaching Activities

Winter Term 2025/26: Exercise in the Master's programme „Methoden der Datenerhebung und Analyse“
Summer Term 2025: Exercise in the Bachelor's programme „Wirtschaft und Entwicklung“
Winter Term 2024/25: Exercise in the Master's programme „Methoden der Datenerhebung und Analyse“
Summer Term 2024: Exercise in the Bachelor's programme „Wirtschaft und Entwicklung“
Winter Term 2023/24: Exercise in the Bachelor's programme “Bevölkerung und Stadt”

Acadamic Career

since 08/2023
Research assistant in the working group "Economic Geography and the Global South", Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez, Department of Geography, University of Cologne

since 08/2023
PhD student in the project "Beyond offshoring: tradable services and regional value chains in the Global South"

07/2023
M.Sc. Geography (focus: economic geography), University of Cologne

04/2021
B.A. Geography and English Studies, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster

Publications

Galbraith, E.,;  Revilla Diez, J. (2025): Positioning for net-zero: Singapore’s extraterritorial agency in global production and financial networks. Finance and Space, 2(1), 454-473. DOI:10.1080/2833115X.2025.2581283 

Galbraith, E.; Hulke, C.; Revilla Diez, J. (2025): Constrained opportunities for path development: how misaligned agencies and structures shape Southern regional value chains. Regional Studies 59(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2442009

Memberships

Secretary of the Society for Geography in Cologne (GfE)
Member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Member of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo)

Presentations

Economic Geography Project Workshop: “Beyond passive hosts: Host country agency and geopolitical proximity in the strategic coupling of foreign state investors” in Wiesbaden-Naurod (Germany), November 2025

7th Global Conference on Economic Geography: “Strategic coupling: Vietnam’s bargaining role and geopolitical-economic proximity in Singaporean state-led energy investments”, in Worcester (USA), June 2025

The Second Global Financial Geography (FinGeo) Conference: “Positioning for Net-Zero: Unpacking Singapore’s state-finance nexus in maintaining a trade and finance hub”, in Singapore, February 2025

Nordic Geographers Meeting: “Understanding the role of new state capitalism in Singapore in shaping regional production networks of renewable energy”, in Copenhagen (Denmark), June 2024

Global Financial Network (GFN) – Global Production Network (GPN) Workshop: “Investigating the role of Singapore's financial services and their impact on regional economies in Southeast Asia”, in Zhuhai (China), March 2024

Symposium on environmentally oriented economic geography: ‘Investigating the role of Singapore's financial services and its impact on regional economies in Southeast Asia’, in Cologne (Germany), December 2023

Industrial Geography Working Group: ‘Beyond offshoring: Tradable services and regional value chains in the Global South’, in Wiesbaden-Naurod (Germany), November 2023