All Team Members

Åsa Persson is Research Director and Deputy Director at SEI. Dr. Persson is a social scientist and expert on climate and sustainable development governance. She is Adjunct Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department for Thematic Studies, Environmental Change, Linköping University.

Yixian Sun is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at the University of Bath. He holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in International Relations / Political Science, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. Further, Yixian is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at…

Blake Harvey is a first-year MSc Sustainable Development student studying Earth System Governance at Utrecht University. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Boston College where she studied environmental policy and climate justice. Blake is currently the student assistant for the GLOBALGOALS Project where she focuses on project management and public outreach to support the launch of the SDG Impact…

Detlef van Vuuren is a senior researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Agency, The Netherlands, and professor of Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Sébastien Treyer is executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, France

John Thwaites is chair and professor of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University, Australia, chair of ClimateWorks Australia, chair of Melbourne Water, and co-chair of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

John Thompson is a researcher of Knowledge, Technology and Society at the Institute of Development Studies and deputy director of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Michelle Scobie is a researcher in International Relations at the Institute of International Relations and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.