Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy, The College of William and Mary
Dr. Maria Ivanova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy at The College of William and Mary and the Director of the Global Environmental Governance (GEG) Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, the effectiveness of the United Nations, and the role of the United States in international environmental...
Former Senior Vice President, American Electronics Association
William Krist is currently a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. For the past three years he has been working on a book on U.S. trade policy including its impact on economic development, the environment, U.S. foreign policy, and employment here in the United States. It is expected that a draft of the book will be completed in early 2012.In addition to his...
Assistant Professor, Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Throughout my academic and professional career, I have been motivated by what I believe to be the quintessential environmental challenge of our time, global climate change, and the need to transition to a low carbon economy. Since the majority of future fossil energy consumption and consequently carbon dioxide emissions will stem from the developing world, and foremost from China’s rapid industria...
Associate Professor, Department of History and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
My fascination with watercourses probably dates to a childhood spent playing along the bayous of Houston, Texas. My academic interest in history only emerged as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, when I chucked my undergraduate journalism major to study history, a field that I found more useful at explaining the complexities of the world around me. I also had a more general int...
Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
SubjectsDevelopment,Human Rights,International LawExpertiseInternational law; human rights; sustainable development
Full Professor, University of Pavia, Italia
Most of my publications concern 1. local government in the late modern history ; 2. state administration in the same era. But I happened to deal with different subjects such as administrative communication, the history of legal thought and, lately, the transfer of institutional models. Much of the underlying research work is comparative, albeit with reference to Europe only.My research work...
Author; Former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC)
John W. Sewell is a Senior Scholar at The Wilson Center. His current research analyzes how globalization has affected American national interests in the developing world and the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a Wilson Center policy paper entitled "The Realpolitik of Ending Poverty: An Action Plan fo...
Director, Partners for Democratic Change
ExpertiseChange and conflict management; governance and civil society development