Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Assistant Professor of Global Governance at UMass
Dr. Maria Ivanova is Assistant Professor of Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Professor Ivanova is an international relations and environmental policy scholar specializing in governance and sustainability. She analyzes the history and performance of the international environmental architecture, with a focus on UNEP and the evolution of US international environmental policy. Her policy work seeks to bring analytical rigor to the international negotiations on reforming the UN system for environmental governance. She has published on governance, globalization, and the environment and produced three short documentaries on global environmental governance. Previously, she worked at the OECD in Paris, at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in Stockholm and at the College of William and Mary.