Biography

Jonathan is an Associate Professor at the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, where he teaches international relations. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (2015-19) at the University of Canberra.

He completed his PhD in philosophy at the Australian National University, graduating in 2014. His thesis explored opportunities for reaching a fair agreement between developing and developed countries in global climate change negotiations. Before joining the University of Canberra he taught climate and environmental policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU (2011-14), and was a Visiting Fellow at the Development Policy Centre at ANU from 2014-19.

Jonathan’s research interests include democracy and justice in environmental governance (particularly the global governance of climate change and biodiversity). He is currently working on a research project on interlinkages between climate policy and sustainable development policy in Australia. 

He has a Master's degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and undergraduate degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney. Previously he worked as a policy and program manager with the Australian Government's international development assistance program (AusAID, 2003-09).

He is a senior research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project (a network of social science and humanities researchers working on the implications of global environmental change for governance at all scales) and a member of the Project's Scientific Steering Committee.