Contributors

Contributors

Dora Almassy is a PhD candidate in the environmental sciences and policy department at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her thesis research aims to identify the key national governance aspects of international environmental goal-setting and implementation processes and translate these aspects into a sustainability transition management index. In addition, she participates in various international research projects focusing on environmental governance topics. Prior to starting a PhD, she worked as an expert in the environmental financing topic area of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. She has a postgraduate degree in business management from Sciences Po, Paris, France, and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Miskolc, Hungary. Steinar Andresen is a research professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute of Norway. He has also been a professor at the department of political science at the University of Oslo as well as an adjunct professor at the Pluricourts Center of Excellence, also at University of Oslo. He is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project and has also been affiliated with the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Princeton University, University of Washington, and the International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis in Austria. He has published extensively, particularly on global environmental governance. Noura Bakkour is project manager at the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), Paris, France. She contributes to IDDRI’s efforts to assess and communicate the current state of knowledge regarding financing and implementation of the post-2015 agenda. Previously, Bakkour served as special assistant to Laurence Tubiana, former director at IDDRI. Prior to that, Bakkour held project management and coordination positions at the Earth Institute, Conservation

International, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (currently known as C2ES). Bakkour holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University, with a focus on environmental science and policy. Steven Bernstein is a professor in the department of political science and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. His research interests include global governance, global environmental politics, international political economy, and international institutions. He is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project and has consulted on institutional reform for the United Nations. Current major research projects include “Coherence and Incoherence in Global Sustainable Development Governance” (with Erin Hannah) and “Transformative Policy Pathways Towards Decarbonization” (with Matthew Hoffmann).

Frank Biermann is research professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He also chairs the Earth System Governance Project, a global transdisciplinary research network that was launched in 2009 and has joined in 2015 the research alliance “Future Earth.” Biermann’s current research examines options for reform of the United Nations and multilateral institutions, global adaptation governance, Sustainable Development Goals, the political role of science, global justice, and conceptual innovations such as the notion of the Anthropocene. Biermann has authored, coauthored, or edited 16 books, along with numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in academic books, with his most recent book being Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press 2014). He is frequently invited to governmental commissions and panels and has spoken, among other venues, in the UN General Assembly, the European Parliament, and the European Economic and Social Committee. Thierry Giordano is an agricultural economist at the International Cooperation Centre for Agronomic Research and Development in Montpellier, France. His main fields of expertise are official development assistance, financing for development, and the greening of economies, with a focus on Africa. From 2007 to 2012, he worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a technical assistant seconded to the Development Bank of Southern Africa in Midrand, South Africa.

Aarti Gupta is an associate professor in the Environmental Policy Group of the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, The

Netherlands. Her research interests lie in global environmental and sustainability governance, with a focus on the politics of anticipatory risk governance and the role of science, knowledge, and expertise in environmental governance in the issue areas of biotechnology, biodiversity, forests, and climate. Recently, her work has centered on the contested politics of transparency and accountability in environmental governance, with an edited volume on Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives, published by MIT Press (with Michael Mason, 2014). She is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project and an associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics. She holds a PhD from Yale University. Joyeeta Gupta is professor of environment and development in the Global South at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam and UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization–IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She has published extensively and sits on the scientific steering committees of several national, European, and international projects, including the Earth System Governance Project. Her most recent book, History of Global Climate Governance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014 and won the Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award for 2014 in its history category. Peter M. Haas is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published extensively on international relations theory, global governance, and international environmental politics. He has received the 2015 UMASS Amherst Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activities and the 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award of the International Studies Association Environmental Studies Section. He is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project and has consulted for the UN Environment Programme, UN Commission on Global Governance, and the governments of the United States, France, and Portugal. Masahiko Iguchi is an assistant professor in the department of international relations at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. Prior to his current position, he worked as research associate at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Tokyo. Iguchi holds a bachelor’s degree in politics and international relations from the University of Essex, a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Norichika Kanie is a professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Before joining Keio, he worked at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Department of Policy Studies, The University of Kitakyushu. His research focuses on global environmental governance and sustainability. He was the project leader of a research project on Sustainable Development Goals (S-11, FY2013–15), funded by the Ministry of Environment, Japan (Environment Research and Technology Development Fund), of which this book project was a part. Among others he serves on the scientific steering committee of the Earth System Governance Project (a core project of Future Earth), and as co-chair of the Working Party on Climate, Investment and Development of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2009–2010 he was a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow of the European Commission and visiting professor at SciencesPo, Paris. He holds a PhD in Media and Governance from the Keio University. Rakhyun E. Kim is an assistant professor of global environmental governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research explores the complexity of international environmental law from an earth system perspective. Kim serves as book review editor of Transnational Environmental Law and is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project, an associate fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Commission on Environmental Law. Kim holds a PhD from the Australian National University. He is the recipient of the 2013 Oran R. Young Prize. Marcel Kok is environment and development program leader and senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, department of Nature and Rural Areas. His research concentrates on governance strategies and scenario analysis of global environmental problems, most recently on mainstreaming biodiversity, bottom-up approaches to global governance, sustainable supply chains, and vulnerability analysis. Kanako Morita is a researcher at the Bureau of International Partnership, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, and a project assistant professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan. She received her PhD in value and decision science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010. Her research interests are in environmental policy and governance, including environmental financing.

Måns Nilsson is research director and deputy director at the Stockholm Environment Institute and a part-time professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Key areas of interest are in low-carbon energy and transport policies, development studies and the 2030 agenda, innovation and transitions, and institutions and governance. In recent years he helped establish the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and has been closely involved as an advisor on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals to the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the European Commission. Måns has slipped more than 40 papers past unsuspecting editors of academic journals and has edited two books. He received his master’s degree in international economics from University of Lund, Sweden, and his PhD degree in policy analysis from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. László Pintér is a professor in the department of environmental sciences and policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and Senior Fellow and Associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Winnipeg, Canada. Prior to joining the Central European University in 2010, he had been working full time with IISD since 1994, serving as director of IISD’s Measurement and Assessment Program between 2003 and 2010. He works worldwide, and his main research areas include the use of knowledge and management tools in sustainable development governance and strategies. Michelle Scobie is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of International Relations and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, where she teaches international law, international economic law, and global environmental governance. She is also co-editor of the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy and an attorney at law with practice in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. She holds a doctorate in international relations and a bachelor of laws from the University of the West Indies St. Augustine and Cave Hill. Scobie’s research areas include global and regional environmental governance trends and challenges, especially in relation to institutional architectures relating to climate change, tourism, sustainable development, marine governance, private governance, environmental ethics, trade, and the environment, particularly from the perspective of developing countries. She is a member of the Earth System Governance Scientific Steering Committee. She has served as a senior economic policy analyst with the Ministry of Finance of the Government of

Trinidad and Tobago and as the first corporate secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Heritage and Stabilization Fund. She was the recipient of a 2013 Commonwealth Fellowship Award and was a Commonwealth Fellow with the School of International Development of the University of East Anglia, as well as a research fellow at University College, London. Noriko Shimizu is a researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan. Her research includes climate finance and safeguard policies of financial institutions. Shimizu holds a bachelor’s degree in political sciences and economics from the Waseda University, Japan and a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Bristol, England, and is currently a PhD student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Casey Stevens is an adjunct faculty member in the department of political science at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His research focuses on global environmental governance, with a particular emphasis on biodiversity governance and sustainable development. Recent publications have dealt with topics related to global biodiversity politics, including financing and implementation in the green economy era. He is currently working on a book titled Resilient Governance: Networks for Protecting Changing Ecosystems across Borders.

Arild Underdal is professor of political science at the University of Oslo and at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, where he works mainly on an eight-year research program known as Strategic Challenges in International Climate and Energy Policy. Most of his research has focused on international cooperation, with particular reference to environmental governance. Other book-format publications include Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence (with E.L. Miles et al., 2002), Regime Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies (co-edited with Oran R. Young, 2004), and The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change (co-edited with G. Bang and S. Andresen, 2015). Underdal has served one term (2002–2005) as rector of the University of Oslo and one term as vice rector (1993–1995). Recent international assignments include two terms as chair of the Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and two terms as chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Tancrède Voituriez is research officer at the International Cooperation Centre for Agronomic Research and Development and director of the Governance Program at the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales, Paris. Following his doctoral research in economics on the

instability of commodity markets, he joined the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales in 2005 to research the effects of globalization on sustainable development. He has coordinated research projects for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Since 2010, his work has focused on the conditions for implementing public policies for sustainable development, with a focus on innovative financing. Takahiro Yamada is a professor of international politics at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies of Nagoya University, Japan. His research has examined the role of knowledge and norms in the creation and evolution of international regimes in areas such as climate change as well as the multi-stakeholder processes that led to the World Bank’s socialization of sustainable development norms. He is the author of Governing an Emerging Global Society, and numerous articles appearing in the Japan Association of International Relations’ journal International Relations and the Japanese Society of International Law’s Journal of International Law and Diplomacy. Oran R. Young is a professor emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and a research professor at the Marine Science Institute, both at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A longtime leader in research on international environmental governance, his work addresses theoretical questions relating to governance without government and applied issues relating to marine systems, climate change, and the polar regions. His current research focuses on the theme of “sustainability in the Anthropocene: governing complex systems.” He has been active for many years in the global environmental research community, and is a lead faculty member of the Earth System Governance Project.