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