Jennifer Clapp, Background

Jennifer Clapp is the CIGI chair in Global Environmental Governance and professor in both the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Her published work covers a range of topics at the interface of the global economy, food and the environment, including the politics of agricultural trade, food aid, agricultural biotechnology and the role of transnational corporations in global environmental and food governance.

She is the author of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (co-authored with Peter Dauvergne), Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries and Adjustment and Agriculture in Africa: Farmers, the State and the World Bank in Guinea. She is co-editor of Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development, Corporate Power in Global Agri-Food Governance and The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities.

Jennifer is co-editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and editorial board member of the journal Global Governance. She holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics.