Meet the Faculty for the MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace!


Feb 22, 2018

The MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace starts on March 1st! We are excited to introduce the faculty who will deliver lectures for this course. There are five core faculty and four guest lecturers – all of whom have been working on environmental security, peacebuilding, and related topics for the last two decades. They are all excited to share their experiences as well as knowledge gathered from various additional contributors throughout the course.

Core Faculty

Erika Weinthal – Lee Hill Snowdon Professor of Environmental Policy

Richard Matthew – Professor and Director, Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development

Marc Levy –Deputy Director, CIESN at the Earth Institute

David Jensen – Head of Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Program, UN Environment

Carl Bruch – Director of Environmental Programs, Environmental Law Institute

Guest Lecturers

Silja Halle – Programme Officer, UN Environment’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch

Rebeca Arias Flores – United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Guatemala

Bernarda Elizalde – Co-Founder, Center for Responsible Mineral Development (RMD) Inc. and Member, Executive Committee of the Canadian CSR Center for Excellence

Ken Conca – Professor, School of International Service, American University

Visit https://epmooc.org to see more information about the MOOC’s Core Faculty and Guest Lecturers!