Assistant Professor Global Environmental Governance

Jeffrey Sachs--former World Bank (and shock therapy) economist and current Columbia prof and UN adviser argues--quite convincingly--that one of the four biggest challenges facing us in the 21st century is "global cooperation" and interdisciplinarity is critical for this. The job position below reflects both these trends, and its in Amsterdam! mm


The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Global Environmental Governance (starting date 1 January 2010).

The position
The successful candidate will be expected to spend about 20 percent of her/his time on teaching at MSc level and the remaining time on research projects. In particular, the successful candidate will be the core researcher in a new three-year research programme on ‘Explaining the Role and Relevance of Transnational Rule-making Organizations in Global Sustainability Politics: Contributions to a Theory of Transnational Governance’, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. This project will develop a theoretical framework on the scope conditions for transnational rule-making organization and examine a set of hypotheses derived from institutional and organizational theory. An outline of this project can be obtained from Tineke Reus at tineke.reus [at] ivm.vu.nl.