The International Project Office is hosted by Lund University.
Lead Faculty
The Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Project is a group of not more than 100 individual scientists of high international reputation who will take over (shared) responsibility for the development of research on particular analytical problems, crosscutting themes or flagship activities of the Earth System Governance Science and Implementation Plan.
(in alphabetical order)
| Prof. Kenneth W. Abbott, Arizona State University, United States of America |
| Prof. Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, United States of America |
| Prof. Steinar Andresen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway |
| Prof. Walter F. Baber, California State University, Long Beach, United States of America |
| Prof. Robert V. Bartlett, University of Vermont, United States of America |
| Prof. Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Dr. Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, United Kingdom |
| Prof. Ben Cashore, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, United States of America |
| Prof. Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo; and CIGI Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada |
| Prof. Ken Conca, American University, United States of America |
| Prof. Leila da Costa Ferreira, University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Prof. Bharat H. Desai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Prof. John S. Dryzek, Australian National University, Australia |
| Prof. Itay Fischhendler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Prof. Carl Folke, Stockholm University, and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden |
| Prof. Roberto P. Guimarães, Getulio Vargas Foundation, and State University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Dr. Julia S. Guivant, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| Prof. Peter M. Haas, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, United States of America |
| Prof. Hironori Hamanaka, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan |
| Prof. Matthew J. Hoffmann, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Prof. Jia Wenhua, China University of Political Science and Law, China |
| Prof. Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom |
| Dr. Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |
| Prof. Ma Zhong, Renmin University of China, China |
| Dr. Elizabeth L. Malone, Joint Global Change Research Institute, United States of America |
| Prof. James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Canada |
| Prof. Ronald B. Mitchell, University of Oregon, United States of America |
| Prof. Peter Newell, University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Prof. Sebastian Oberthür, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| Prof. Hiroshi Ohta, Waseda University, Japan |
| Prof. Lennart Olsson, Lund University, Sweden |
| Prof. Arthur Petersen, VU University Amsterdam; and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands |
| Prof. Qi Ye, Tsinghua University, China |
| Dr. Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, University of California Riverside, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, United States of America, Mexico |
| Agus Sari, Ecosecurities International, Indonesia |
| Dr. R.B. Singh, University of Delhi, India |
| Prof. Will Steffen, Australian National University, Australia |
| Prof. Simon Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Dr. Laurance Tubiana, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), France |
| Prof. Kazuhiro Ueta, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Prof. Arild Underdal, University of Oslo, Norway |
| Prof. Eduardo Viola, University of Brasilia, Brazil |
| Prof. Wang Canfa, China University of Political Science and Law, China |
| Prof. Oran R. Young, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States of America |