Jessica Green

Professor, Royal Society of Canada College
SS 3031
416-978-6758
jf.green@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Cross-Appointments

School of the Environment

Fields of Study

  • International Relations

Areas of Interest

  • Climate governance
  • Non-state actors
  • Private authority
  • Global governance
  • Transnational regulation

Biography

Prof. Green is the author of Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions are Failing and How to Fix Them (Princeton University Press 2025) and the multi-award winning book Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance (Princeton University Press, 2014). Her recent research focuses on net zero, carbon markets and deep sea mining. She publishes regularly in both scholarly journals and popular publications including Nature, Nature Climate Change, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail and The Boston Review.

Education

BA, Brown University
MPA, Columbia University
PhD, Princeton University

Publications