Dr. Sabine Dörry

Welfare privatization, including large-scale private green investments, risks deepening inequalities and hinder sustainable regional development. This research explores sustainable finance’s role in a just and rapid net-zero transition in Saxony. Key questions are, How (if so) can finance support equitable, future-proof regions? How does welfare privatization affect regional transformation?

Financial Geography; Financialisation; Financial Centres; Climate Policy in Finance; Sustainable Finance; Global Production Networks; Regional Economies

Sabine Dörry, an economic and financial geographer, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). She has held a Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford and taught at various European universities. She co-led research projects such as ‘European Financial Centres in Transition’ (FINCITY) and ‘Regional approaches towards alternative economies and sustainable finance’ (AltFin). She is a founding member of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) and an editor for the journals Competition & Change and Articulo – Journal of Urban Research. Her research focuses on global production and trade relations, particularly in finance, urban development, especially in financial centres, and commercial real estate, particularly as financial products. She explores the relational and expansionary nature of global finance, as well as the sustainability of financial centres amid global market pressure and geopolitical shifts. Sabine Dörry has consulted for international organisations and serves as a member (and interim president) of Luxembourg’s Climate Policy Observatory. She previously advised Spuerkeess, a public bank, on climate and environmental practices. Her book on Future Finance is forthcoming.