Madeleine Pumberger is an Associate at Ecologic Institute. From December 2022 until July 2024, she worked at Ecologic Institute as a Researcher with the legal team. She focuses on European and International Environmental Law, including International Trade Law and Finance. Madeleine Pumberger is a native German speaker and works in English, Spanish and French. She is fluent in Czech and has basic knowledge of Russian.
At Ecologic Institute, Madeleine Pumberger's work mainly focuses on legal matters related to International Environmental Law, as well as International and European trade policy. She has advised the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) on trade policy and Trade and Sustainable Development chapters (TSD) of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) as well as the crisis resilience of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). She coordinated the project "Potential new sources of climate finance, including taxation" advising the European Commission. Furthermore, she works on European energy matters, qualitative assessments of EU funding programmes on environmental objectives and comparative law.
Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, Madeleine Pumberger was a legal consultant at the United Nations Office in Vienna (Austria) on civil society engagement in governmental decisions and environmental crime. Additionally, she worked as a trainee lawyer at the office of the Legal Adviser to the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, primarily working for the division of International Environmental and Commercial Law, where she managed the collaboration with relevant international organizations. She completed her Blue Book Traineeship in Brussels (Belgium) at the European Anti-Fraud Office (DG OLAF), working specifically on Rule of Law (ROL) issues, environmental crimes and the European Green Deal.
Madeleine is a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), providing expertise to the work of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She is currently completing an LL.M. in Environmental and Energy Law at Georgetown University Law Center through the Fulbright Program in Washington, D.C. Madeleine studied at the University of Vienna and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), with a focus on Public International Law and European Law. During her studies, she spent one semester in Barcelona (Spain).
