Bio

Greta Franke is a student assistant at the Berlin-based Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), where she contributes to various projects on the platform economy. In her work, she applies a comparative lens to the framework conditions that allow democratically owned and governed platforms to thrive, comparing platform regulation in the US, Germany, and France. Greta has also been part of the team that has organized this year’s PCC Conference. Besides her work at the IÖW, she is currently completing her M.A. in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her main academic interests concern global inequalities, platform economy, and gender equality. She has studied Sociology and Global Affairs at Northwestern University (USA, Illinois), Philipps-University (Germany, Marburg), and Charles-University (Czech Republic, Prague).