Environmental Security Experts
Director of Environmental Studies, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University
Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of environmental studies at Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. He joined the School in August 2012 and was previously director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program. He remains a senior advisor to the Environmental Change and Security Program and is also an adjunct professor at the Mont...
Roger-Mark De Souza is the director of Population, Environmental Change, and Security for the Woodrow Wilson Center. He leads programs on reproductive and maternal health, environmental security, and livelihoods, including the Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and the Global Health Initiative.Before joining the Center in 2013, De Souza served as vice president of research an...
Michael Kugelman is senior program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on South and Southeast Asia. His most recent work has focused on Pakistan's 2013 elections, India-Pakistan relations, U.S.-Pakistan relations, youth movements and social media in Pakistan, and security challenges in Ind...
Dr. Todd Kuiken is a Senior Program Associate with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars where he explores the scientific and technological frontier, stimulating discovery and bringing new tools to bear on public policy challenges that emerge as science advances. He currently is collaborating with DIYbio.org on a project to ensur...
Susan (Chan) Shifflett is a program associate at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, Susan was a junior associate at The Asia Foundation. As a graduate student, she interned at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Food Security, writing research briefs on food and water security. From 2007-2010, she lived in Beijing where she serv...
Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Law, Montclair State University
Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
I first developed the concept for my monograph, China as a Risk Society, as a result of my experience as a Fulbright lecturer in Hong Kong in 2002-2003, the year of the SARS crisis, when I observed a complete turnaround in China’s relations with its neighbors due to the Chinese government’s mishandling of the epidemic. Although I have written a great deal over the past decade about great pow...