Teresa Kramarz is the Co Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, with Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann (University of Toronto).  She convenes the Accountability in Global Environmental Governance Taskforce with Susan Park (University of Sydney), an international research network of scholars investigating issues of democracy and accountability across environmental regimes. She is the Co-Chair of the United Nations Development Programme Advisory Group on Energy Governance.

An expert on international organizations and global governance, with a focus on global environmental politics, her work has examined the performance of the World Bank’s public-private partnerships in biodiversity governance, accountability in environmental governance and the politics of oil and mining in the transition to renewable energy.

Dr. Kramarz has extensive experience in her field having worked for almost ten years with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agricultural Organization, and the Canadian International Development Agency on sustainable development programs, institutional analysis and capacity building for the biodiversity, climate change and decertification conventions.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2022-present - Professor, School of the Environment, University of Toronto.

2013-2022 - Professor and Research Associate in Global Affairs, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

2013-2022 - Director of Munk One Foundation Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

2019- 2020 - Visiting Professor, Carlos III University of Madrid- Juan March Institute of Social Sciences, Spain

2013- 2014 - Associate Director of the Master of Global Affairs, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

2012-13 - Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
 

INTERNATIONAL POLICY APPOINTMENTS

1993-2001 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Peru. Programme Manager, Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Programme Officer for the Environment, Health and Alternative Development national portfolios, and Focal Point for Inter-Agency Coordination

1998-01 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Chile and Brazil
Institutional Capacity Specialist

1996-00 The World Bank, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Washington, DC. Environmental Project Preparation Coordinator

1996 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Coordinator of the Regional Programme in Argentina

1989-90 United Nations Center for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
Human Rights Research Fellow