All Team Members

Pamela Chasek is professor of Political Science and chair of the Political Science Department at Manhattan College, United States.

Debapriya Bhattacharya is a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, and chair of Southern Voice, an open platform for think tanks and researchers from Global South countries.

Steven Bernstein is distinguished professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Marianne Beisheim is a senior researcher in the research division Global Issues at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany.

Julia Fritzsche studied the undergraduate programme Global Sustainability Science with a specialization in Governance and Societal Transformation. She was on the organizing team of the GLOBALGOALS2020 Symposium.

Jonathan Pickering is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Canberra, Australia, based at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. His research focuses on global environmental governance, with an emphasis on climate change and biodiversity. His research has been published in a range of journals including Climate Policy, Earth System Governance, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, and World…

Pamela Chasek is a professor of Political Science at Manhattan College, United States of America. Prof. Chasek is also the co-founder and executive editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations. She has written about and followed UN sustainable development negotiations for over 27 years. Prof. Chasek’s research focuses on multilateral environmental negotiations…

Norichika Kanie is an internationally leading expert on the Sustainable Development Goals, and among others co-chair of the Knowledge Action Network on Sustainable Development Goals under the global research platform Future Earth. Kanie is a professor with the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, Japan; a visiting professor with the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of…

Kenneth Abbott is a leading scholar in international law, specializing in the interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations, including public and private institutions, environmental issues, development policy, global health, and international trade and economic law. At Arizona State University, Abbott is the Jack E. Brown Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; the faculty…

From 2018-2020 Charlotte Ballard was the science communication and public relations officer co-ordinating the media and outreach programme of GLOBALGOALS. She was trained as an evolutionary biologist before moving towards sustainability research and communication. In addition to this role she developed and implemented the communication strategy for the Copernicus Institute as a whole, and is particularly interested in helping researchers…