Dr. Teresa Kramarz

Dr. Teresa Kramarz is the Co Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, with Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann (University of Toronto). She convenes the Accountability in Global Environmental Governance Taskforce with Susan Park (University of Sydney), an international research network of scholars investigating issues of democracy and accountability across environmental regimes. She is the Co-Chair of the United Nations Development Programme Advisory Group on Energy Governance.

An expert on international organizations and global governance, with a focus on global environmental politics, her work has examined the performance of the World Bank’s public-private partnerships in biodiversity governance, accountability in environmental governance and the politics of oil and mining in the transition to renewable energy.

Kramarz has extensive experience in her field having worked for almost ten years with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agricultural Organization, and the Canadian International Development Agency on sustainable development programs, institutional analysis and capacity building for the biodiversity, climate change and decertification conventions.