Daniel Jacobs, Program Director, Kogod School of Business
Daniel Jacobs teaches courses in business strategies for environmental sustainability and global corporate citizenship. He joined Kogod following a distinguished career in the federal government. As an award-winning Trial Attorney at the Justice Department, he was lead counsel in high-profile environmental and civil rights cases. As a Senior Negotiator and Office Director in the State Department's Economic, Energy, and Business Bureau, he led major initiatives to promote and protect American business interests abroad. While serving in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, he won an award for his work in international arbitration. He has taught at George Washington University, Middlebury College, and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He began his professional career as a law clerk to a US Court of Appeals judge. Jacobs earned a JD at the Duke University School of Law. Read full bio
Daniel Fiorino, Executive-in-Residence, School of Public Affairs
Daniel Fiorino’s teaching, research, and writing focus on environmental policy and politics, the executive branch, and the role of analysis and innovation in policy making. He joins the SPA faculty as an Executive-in-Residence following a more than thirty-year career at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. With EPA, he held a range of management and analytical positions, including Director of the National Environmental Performance Track, Associate Director of the Office of Policy Analysis, and senior advisor to the Assistant Administrator for Policy and Evaluation. Read full bio
Stephen MacAvoy, Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
Working in biogeochemistry and ecology, Stephen E. MacAvoy has been particularly interested in areas where marine and freshwater systems interface such as those that appear in tidal aquatic environments. He studies how nutrients flow through and are utilized by aquatic ecosystem components. He has recently published in several interdisciplinary research journals, such as Marine Ecology Progress Series, Biogeochemistry, The Journal of Shellfish Research and Fisheries Bulletin. He is currently conducting research on the origin and fate of organic material in the Anacostia River, Washington DC and also developing models that describe how organisms incorporate nutrients and the importance of metabolism in this process. Read full bio
Matthew Nisbet, Associate Professor, School of Communication
Matthew Nisbet is a social scientist who studies, consults, and lectures on strategic communication in policymaking and public affairs. He is the author of more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and he serves on the editorial boards of Science Communication and the International Journal of Press/Politics. NNisbet's current research examining the debates over climate change and energy policy is funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2011, he was named a Google Science Communication Fellow. Read full bio
Paul Wapner, Associate Professor, School of International Service
Paul Wapner is the author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (SUNY, 1996) and the editor of Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). His newest book is Living through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism (MIT, 2010). He researches and teaches global environmental politics, social movements, environmental thought, and international relations theory. Read full bio
Ken Conca, Professor, School of International Service
Dr. Ken Conca’s research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environmental peacebuilding in war-torn societies, environmental politics and policy in the United Nations system, and international water policy. He is the author/editor of several books on international environmental politics, including Governing Water, Confronting Consumption, Environmental Peacemaking, and the widely used teaching anthology Green Planet Blues. Dr. Conca is a two-time recipient of the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs. He is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Expert Advisory Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding and associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics. Read full bio
Robert Durant, Professor, School of Public Affairs
Professor Durant’s teaching and research focus is executive branch politics, public management, policy implementation, environmental policy, and administrative reform. He is Associate Editor for Administrative Research for Public Administration Review. He has received seven book awards, two best article awards, and the prestigious Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for excellence in research, teaching, and service to the wider community. In addition, he has won seven teaching awards including the 2007 Outstanding Teaching Award in the School of Public Affairs and the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Read full bio
Sikina Jinnah, Assistant Professor, School of International Service
Dr. Sikina Jinnah’s research focuses on the changing dynamics of power and influence in global environmental politics. Her most recent projects examined the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. Prior to coming to SIS she was a visiting fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Dr. Jinnah is also a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she covers CITES and UNFCCC processes for IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Read full bio