People
Directors
Oran Young is a founder and Co-Director of the GSD Program. The author of recent books, including Governance in World Affairs and The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale, he is a leading figure in the global environmental change research community. - More
Durwood Zaelke is a founder and Co-Director of the GSD Program. He is director of INECE, the founder of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and the Managing Partner in the Washington office of Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Getty. He is the co-author of International Environmental Law and Policy and Industry Genius: Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer. - More
Matthew Stilwell is a founder and Managing Director of the GSD Program. He directs the Geneva office of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development and previously served as a legal counsel to the United Nations Environment Programme, advisor to the Basel Convention Secretariat, and managing attorney for the Center for International Environmental Law. He advises a range of partners in civil society, governments, and intergovernmental organizations on issues of international law and policy. - More
Senior Fellows
Senior fellows are selected from the Program's general pool of collaborators, and are invited to become fellows in recognition of their unique contribution to the Program's mission, and to the broader goal of designing and implementing more effective institutions for sustainable development.
Daniel Guttman is an experienced attorney and law professor, with considerable expertise in government contracting and has written extensively in the field. Mr. Guttman's practice involves complex litigation, public management and privatization, utility restructuring, False Claims Act, civil rights, environment, safety and health litigation and regulation. - More
Ken Markowitz is the founder and former President of Earthpace LLC, which is dedicated to enabling organizations to meet environmental policy objectives and legal requirements through communications, strategic planning, partnership building, and innovation. Ken serves as a senior consultant to the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), assisting in the management of the INECE Compliance and Enforcement Indicators project and all aspects of the Network's strategic planning, regional network development, and capacity building efforts. Ken joined the Washington law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in 2007 as Senior Counsel and Global Climate Change Advisor, specializing in Energy Environment and Land Use Climate Change. - More
Erwin Rose is a sustainable development consultant based in Geneva where he is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. His experience ranges from community organizing in the Bronx to negotiating agreements on trade and environment for the U.S Department of State. - More
Visiting Scholars
Kanako Morita received her Master of Arts in 2006 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology where she then embarked on her PhD. She worked with Professor Oran Young conducting research as a visiting scholar at the Bren School from January to August 2007. She has been studying the design of climate regimes beyond 2012 using an interdisciplinary approach. Kanako's principal focus concerns the cost-effectiveness of Kyoto mechanisms and on climate adaptation policy. - More
Affiliated PhDs
Sara Hughes received her Master of Science degree from Michigan State University in 2006. Her research there focused on the role of collaboration in groundwater resources decision making. Sara has a specialization in gender and the environment, and has also worked in Honduras, Peru and Madagascar. She is currently a PhD student at the Bren School working with Oran Young on a comparative project focusing on discourses and water management institutions in Australia and the US. - More
Priya Verma received a Bachelors of Science degree in biology and environmental studies from the University of Massachusetts where she began to formulate research questions based on an understanding of both natural and social science. She received a Masters of Environmental Science and Management from the Bren School where her program of study was Corporate Environmental Management. Now, as a PhD student her research is focused on the science policy interface and her advisory committee is led by Dr. Oran Young (Political Science), Dr. William Freudenburg (Sociology), and Dr. Patricia Holden (Microbiology). - More
Research Fellows
The Program provides research fellowships on a rolling basis to students participating in the Bren School.
Past Fellows
Information forthcoming.
Program Directors Matthew Stilwell, Oran Young and Durwood Zaelke
Feature
Durwood Zaelke reported from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Bali, Indonesia, December 2007. Durwood was interviewed by NPR as one of many delegates debating what to do about greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide. - More