I am a professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and I Co-Direct the Environmental Governance Lab with Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann (University of Toronto).  This is a research hub for scholars working on some of the most important environmental challenges today, advancing ideas and tools to address them. 

I am also the Co-Chair of the United Nations Development Programme’s Advisory Group on Energy Governance, a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance research alliance, and Co-Director of the Accountability in Global Environmental Task Force with Susan Park (University of Sydney).

My research focuses on global environmental governance, international organizations and public-private partnerships.  My current research programs deal with accountability in global environmental governance, World Bank partnerships, and extractives and development.  I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto.  

My latest books are: Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil? (Palgrave 2021) Forgotten Values: The World Bank and Environmental Partnerships (MIT Press, 2020) and Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (MIT Press, 2019)

One of my recent teaching projects is called Global Classrooms and it envisions ways to internationalize the traditional classroom using internet platforms.  Here you can find a knowledge hub with publications, case studies and useful tools that I have collected on this teaching approach.

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