Soazic Elise Wang Sonne is a final year PhD fellow in Economics and Governance at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) where she has been working since early 2016 as a catalyst; promoting and advocating for an increased adoption of openness and transparency practices in social sciences research.