Chiara Backes

Academic education

Chiara earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Business as part of a dual study programme at a global industrial company. She then continued her studies with a Master of Science in Economics and Politics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. A semester abroad took her to the Università degli Studi di Siena. Since April 2025, Chiara has been pursuing her doctorate at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Behaviour.

Career milestones

After completing her studies, Chiara joined an international strategy consultancy in Düsseldorf in June 2023. There, she primarily supports public institutions with strategic issues and accompanies comprehensive transformation processes in the public sector.

With an academic background in Politics & Economics, I’m interested in how political and economic frameworks shape entrepreneurial behavior — especially in contexts marked by institutional complexity and policy uncertainty.

My research focuses on how founders navigate shifting regulatory conditions, how they interpret uncertain policy signals, and how their actions — consciously or not — resonate back into political and institutional environments.

I am particularly drawn to environmental entrepreneurs, who operate in markets that are highly sensitive to regulatory dynamics, subsidies, and public policy shifts. In these fields, policy uncertainty is not an exception but a structural feature — and it challenges how entrepreneurs perceive their environment, navigate decisions, and position themselves in relation to the policy system.