Leadership Team
Asim Zia
Director
Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics and Computer Science at University of Vermont
Bindu Panikkar
Associate Director
Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the Rubinstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Internal Governance Committee
Arne Bomblies
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, UVM
Melody Brown Burkins
Associate Director for Programs at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding
Richard Galbraith
Professor of Medicine and Director of the Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science
William Keeton
Professor and Director of Forestry Program, Rubenstein School of Natural Resources, UVM
Laurie Kutner
Library Associate Professor, Bailey/Howe Library UVM
Hendrika (Rycki) Maltby
Professor of Nursing , UVM
Edward McMahon
Research Associate Professor, CDAE and Political Science
Sean Nolan
Director of Dispute Resolution Program and Associate Professor of Law, VT Law School
Lisa Schnell
Associate Professor of English, UVM
External Advisory Board
Betsy Baker
Distinguished Scholar of Vermont Law School, Former Executive Director, North Pacific Research Board
Brian Bronfman
Founder of the Brian Bronfman Family Foundation
Alice T. Day
Board Member of Council for a Livable World
Lincoln H. Day
Board Member of Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Mark Fruedenberger
Senior Associate, Tetra Tech ARD
Maria Ivanova
Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Assistant Professor of Global Governance at UMass
Richard Kiy
CEO at the Institute of the Americas
Joan K. Meyer
Principal at Industrial Economics, Inc.
Nora Mitchell
Director Emerita of the Conservation Study Institute
David Shirk
Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego
Lawrence Susskind
Ford Professor of Environmental Planning, MIT and Founder, Consensus Building Institute
Ross Virginia
Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science and Director, Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College
Fellows
Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez
Executive Director at Fundación Neotrópica
Pamela Griffin
Independent Scholar
Yurji Bihun
Director of Shelterwood Systems
Adrian
Ivakhiv
Professor of Environmental Studies and Natural Resources, University of Vermont
Jared Margolis
Senior Attorney at Center for Biological Diversity
Azur Moulaert
Former Fellow at the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics
Laurel Name
Writer and Editor for Earth Negotiations Bulletin
Kathleen Osgood
Professor at University of the Arctic, and UVM
Rebecca Pincus
Assistant Professor at US Navel War College
Julian Portilla
Director of the Masters Program in Mediation and Conflict Studies, Champlain College
Helena Vladich
Gund Affiliate, Teaching Lecturer, Environmental Science and Policy, Plymouth State University
Research Scholars
Rubaina Anjum
PhD Candidate in Sustainable Development Policy, Economics and Governance at University of Vermont
Gun Graduate Fellow
Anjanette DeCarlo
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, St. Michael’s College
Benjamin E.K. Ryan
Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security Research Coordinator
Master’s Candidate at University of Vermont Community Development and Applied Economics
Todd Walters
Founder and Lead Expedition Guide of International Peace Park Expeditions
Richmond Silvanus Baye
PhD Candidate in Sustainable Development Policy, Economics and Governance
Social and Ecological Gaming and Simulation Lab Researcher
Gemma Del Rossi
Professor of Political Science at Kennesaw State University
Michele Zebich-Knos
Professor of Political Science at Kennesaw State University
Laurent Cartier
Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF