Contact GEG
General Information:
Please contact Maria Ivanova at mivanova@wm.edu.
Mail should be directed to:
Professor Maria Ivanova
College of William and Mary
Government Department
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA
GEG Team
Maria Ivanova
Dr. Maria Ivanova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Policy at The College of William and Mary and the Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. Her research focuses on international institutions and organizations, environmental policy at the national and global levels, climate change, campus sustainability, and global governance. Her recent work analyzes the history and performance of the international environmental architecture with a focus on the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
A Bulgarian national, Dr. Ivanova holds a PhD and master’s degrees in international relations and environmental policy from Yale University. She has worked at the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in Stockholm. She is the co-editor of "Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities" (with Daniel Esty) and author and co-author of articles and chapters on governance, globalization, and the environment.
Ivanova teaches undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses in Global Environmental Governance, International Organizations, Environmental Diplomacy, and Climate Change. She is a member of the national Implementation Advisory Committee to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment.
Katie Ball
Katie is Maria Ivanova’s assistant for the Global Environmental Governance Forum. She is an International Relations major at the College of William and Mary and a 2008 Truman Scholar. She plans to pursue graduate studies in the field of sustainable development and has implemented projects in India, the Dominican Republic, and Senegal. This past summer, Katie served as an education assistant on an urban, organic farm in Portland, Oregon. She enjoyed living the progressive, west coast lifestyle, while researching the effectiveness of development aid in terms of the environment.
George Cortina
George Cortina is a member of the class of 2011 at the College of William and Mary. During his freshman year, George participated in the William and Mary Biodiesel Project. The following summer, he studied the role the United States in international environmental affairs in a Research Experience for Undergraduates program, working with Maria Ivanova. While his major is still undecided, he is considering economics, biology, or Hispanic studies. In his spare time, George enjoys running, hiking, and reading.
Caroline Cress
Caroline Cress is a research assistant for the Global Environmental Governance Project and is pursuing a double major in Government and Environmental Policy. Her main area of interest is international forest policy and the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). Her most recent research endeavors have focused on the Unites States' role in the climate change regime, Brazil's impact upon international environmental policy, and the ongoing UN reform process. She served as a teaching assistant for the Global Environmental Governance class in the spring of 2008, and she worked with a GEG research team in Washington, DC to study the historical role of the United States in international environmental affairs.
David Gordon
David Gordon has been a Project Manager for the Global Environmental Governance Project. Through a Mellon Scholarship, he currently leads the initiative to map out business involvement in GEG. This effort seeks to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the current engagement process while educating policymakers and businesspeople. David is an undergraduate student at The College of William & Mary and a double major in Business Administration and Environmental Policy. He has been researching Global Environmental Governance since the spring of 2006. In November of 2006, David attended the 12th Conference of the Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Nairobi. David has also worked as a teaching assistant for the Global Environmental Governance class.
David thoroughly enjoys his efforts in local land preservation in his home state of New Jersey as a Land Preservation Intern at the Morris Land Conservancy where he consults neighboring governments on open space conservation. He has had previous work experience on the county government level as an Open Space Intern at the James City County, Virginia’s Planning Department.
Donald Martin
Donald Martin, an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, is the Web Developer for the Global Environmental Governance Project. Donald graduated in 2008 with a double major in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Currently, Donald works as an Environmental Protection Specialist for the Defense Energy Support Center at Fort Belvoir Virginia. In this role, he provides first hand management and oversight of environmental compliance issues as well as conservation and remediation projects at each of the United States military installations worldwide.
During the Spring semester of 2008, Donald acted as a Technology Fellow for the Global Environmental Governance class, assisting over 80 students in the creation interactive web applications to support their research interests in global environmental governance. Donald's research interests include energy policy, the effectiveness of the International Energy Agency and the role of state actors in Global Environmental Governance.
Clare Stankwitz
Clare Stankwitz is an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary and plans to pursue a double major in Environmental Policy and Government. Through a group project in the spring 2008 Global Environmental Governance class, she researched global water issues with an emphasis on water scarcity and the relationship between water resource problems and agricultural topics. She is continuing her work with the Global Environmental Governance Project as a member of the Project's summer 2008 Washington Research Team examining the role of the United States in international environmental policy.
Susanah Stoessel
Susanah Stoessel is Project Manager of the United Nations Environmental History Project, an offshoot of the Global Environmental Governance Project. Susanah graduated from the College of William and Mary in May 2007, earning a bachelor’s in American Studies. Having become involved with the Environmental Studies program in only her final year at the College, her work on the UN Environmental History Project integrates her interdisciplinary training in humanities with her interest in environmental governance.
Susanah began integrating her work in American Studies and her interest in environmental issues when, in an American Studies course entitled “Consumer Religion,” she researched the intersection of environmentalism and religion and the impact that intersectoin may have on consumer behavior. She began doing documentary work as a senior in the American Studies program through the Williamsburg Documentary Project. As an undergraduate, Susanah worked in the Global Education Office at William and Mary and studied abroad in the Netherlands where she reveled in the experience of living in a more environmentally progressive society.
Philip Zapfel
Philip Zapfel is an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary working for Maria Ivanova's Washington Summer Research Program on US environmental policy. He will graduate in the spring of 2009 with a major in English and a minor in Environmental Science and Policy. In his Global Environmental Governance class in the spring of 2008, he worked studied the global chemicals regime.
He is active in the William and Mary Student Environmental Action Coalition, helping on projects such as Green Fees, freshman environmental orientation, and the Campus Sustainability Road Map. Philip is also an editor for the campus literary magazine jump! and is currently helping to plan Virginia PowerShift 2008, an environmental conference for Virginia college students.