GPAC² Keynote speech: The Culture of Markets: the political economy of climate governance to offer.


Dr. Janelle Knox-Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology

About the speaker
Janelle Knox-Hayes is an assistant professor in the school of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently also a visiting research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University. Dr. Knox-Hayes joined the School of Public Policy after completing her BA (Summa Cum Laude) in International Affairs, Ecology, and Japanese Language and Civilizations from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2004 and her MSc (with Distinction) and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Before starting graduate school, Dr. Knox-Hayes worked as an energy analyst for the United State Government Accountability Office. While in graduate school, she also worked as an energy analyst for New Energy Finance. Dr. Knox-Hayes’ research focuses on energy security and environmental finance. She has conducted comparative work of the evolution of emissions markets across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. She has also conducted research on the institutional development and cultural transfer of environmental finance in the Asia-Pacific region with an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and Japan Center for Global Partnership. Janelle is the author of a number of peer-reviewed works in prestigious journals and presses.

Date: 19 November 2013

Time: 15:30 - 16:30  CEST


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