Dr. Aarti Gupta Name and address Name Room Telephone Fax Email Aarti Gupta 2019 +31.(0)317.482496 or 484452 +31.(0)317.483990 Aarti.Gupta@wur.nl Position Assistant Professor

• Assistant Professor, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (2006 – present)
• Policy advisor, Environment and Development, Novib (Oxfam Netherlands) (2005 – 2006)
• Visiting Researcher, Technology and Agrarian Development Group, Wageningen University (2003 –2005)
• Project Manager, Forest Integrity Network, Transparency International, Berlin (2002-2003) 
• Post-Doctoral Scholar, Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Columbia University (2001– 2002)
• Research Fellow, Global Environmental Assessment Project, Harvard University (1998–2001) 
• Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, Yale University (2001) 
• M.A. in Political Science, University of Chicago (1993) 
• Curriculum Vitae (as of October 2008)

Research profile

• Fields of expertise: Global environmental politics, risk governance, trade and environment, the role of science in environmental policy-making, global– local linkages in governance
• ENP Research theme: Global Environmental Change 

Publications

• Jansen, Kees and Aarti Gupta. 2009. “Anticipating the future: ‘Biotechnology for the poor’ as unrealized promise?” Futures, Article in Press.
• Falkner, Robert and Aarti Gupta. 2009. “Limits of Regulatory Convergence:globalization and GMO politics in the South” International Environmental Agreements 9:113–133
• Gupta, Aarti. 2008. Transparency Under Scrutiny: Information Disclosure in Global Environmental Governance. Global Environmental Politics, 8 (2): 1-7
• Gupta, Aarti. 2008. Global biosafety governance: the current state of play. In: Institutional Interplay: the case of biosafety, edited by Oran Young, Joy A. Kim and Bradnee W. Chambers., pp. 19-46. Yokohama: UNU Press.
• Gupta, Aarti and Robert Falkner. 2006. “The influence of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa”. Global Environmental Politics 6:4, pp. 23-55.
• Gupta, Aarti. 2006. “Problem Framing in Assessment Processes: the case of Biosafety”. In Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence, edited by Ronald B. Mitchell, William C. Clark, David Cash and Nancy M. Dickson, pp. 57-86. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Gupta, Aarti and Ute Siebert. 2004. “Combating Forest Corruption: the Forest Integrity Network” Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Vol. 19, Numbers 1/2/3: 337-349. 
• Gupta, Aarti. 2004. “When Global is Local: Negotiating Safe Use of Biotechnology”. In Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long-Martello, pp. 127-148. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Gupta, Aarti. 2002. “Advance Informed Agreement: a shared basis to govern trade in genetically modified organisms?” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Vol. 9, No. 1: 265-281. 
• Gupta, Aarti. 2000. “Governing Trade in Genetically Modified Organisms: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.” Environment 42, no. 4 (May), pp. 23–33.
• Complete list of publications
• Recent Wageningen University publications

Research projects

• Transformations in global environmental governance (EU COST Action IS0802)
• Transparency and accountability in global environmental governance
• Norms, risk and science in multilevel biosafety governance

Educational tasks

• International Environmental Politics (ENP 30306)
• Environmental Policy: Analysis and Evaluation (ENP 34306)
• Thesis Environmental Policy supervision

Other academic memberships and achievements

• Editorial Board Member, Global Environmental Politics (2008 - 2012)
• Vice-Chair, Management Committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS0802 Transformations in Global Environmental Governance (2008 - 2012); Vice-Chair, Working Group 3 on Governance Architectures and Processes of the COST Action IS0802. More information available at: http://www.glogov.org/?pageid=95
• Associated Faculty, Global Governance Project, a European network of research institutions working on global environmental change (2000 – present). More information at: http://www.glogov.org
• Co-Coordinator,Thematic Cluster on Environmental Governance of the Netherlands Research School of Socioeconomic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) (2008 - present).
• Member, Science and Democracy Network (2002 - present). More information at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sdn/about/
• Awards and fellowships: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (2003-2005); Global Environmental Assessment Fellowship, Harvard University (1998-2001); Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, Yale University (2000-2001); Joseph L. Fisher Fellowship, Resources for the Future (2000-2001); Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research (2000-2001).