Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme

Expertise

• International environmental policy
• Risk regulation of bio- and nanotechnologies
• Trade and environment
• Business in global environmental politics

Projects

Regulating Nanotechnologies in the EU and US: Towards Effectiveness and Convergence' (2008-09).

A collaborative research project involving researchers from Chatham House, London School of Economics, Environmental Law Institute and The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Project website: www.lse.ac.uk/nanoregulation.

Recent Publications

• Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008).
• The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, edited (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• 'The Political Economy of 'Normative Power' Europe: EU Environmental Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation', in: Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 14, No. 4, 2007, pp. 507-526.
• 'International Sources of Environmental Policy Change in China: The Case of Genetically Modified Food', in: The Pacific Review, vol. 19, no. 4, 2006, pp. 473-94.
• 'Implementing the Cartagena Protocol: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa', in: Global Environmental Politics, vol. 6, no. 4, 2006, pp. 23-55 (with Aarti Gupta).
• 'The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Domestic Implementation: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa' EEDP Briefing Paper 06/01 (London: Chatham House, March 2006) (with Aarti Gupta).
• 'American Hegemony and the Global Environment', in: International Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 4, 2005, pp. 585-99.
• 'China: Ecological Collapse Threatens' The World Today, vol. 61, (August/September 2005), pp. 32-34.

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