Background

CIGI chair and  Jennifer Clapp holds several positions including: professor, Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo; director, Centre for Global Governance Research, University of Waterloo; co-editor, "Global Environmental Politics" (MIT Press); editorial board member, "Global Governance"; contributing editor, "Alternatives Journal."

Previously, Dr. Clapp was: chair, International Development Studies Program, Trent University; board member, web manager and newsletter editor, Society for Women in International Political Economy; member of Sprout Award Committee and Executive Committee of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA); and editor, Global Development Section Newsletter, ISA.