Professor Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley is a Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. Educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, she taught environmental politics and political theory at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. She has published widely in the intersecting fields of environmental political theory, environmental politics and policy and global environmental politics. Her current teaching includes international relations, global environmental politics and political theory. She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ten international journals, including Environmental Politics; Environmental Values; and Global Environmental Politics. Her current research focuses on trade and the environment, particularly the interplay between the World Trade Organisation and the international climate change regime, comparative climate policy and the role of the US in the international climate change negotiations.