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Sikina Jinnah
Assistant Professor
Global Environmental Politics

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Biography
Dr. Jinnah’s research focuses on the changing dynamics of power and influence in global environmental politics. Her most recent project examined the role of international bureaucracies in managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change and international trade. She comes to SIS from Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies where she was a visiting fellow and taught a course on "Trade/Environment Politics: The WTO and the Environment." Dr. Jinnah is also a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Degrees:
PhD, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley
MS, Environmental Studies, University of Montana, Missoula
BA, Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Recent Publications:

• Jinnah, Sikina. "Overlap Management in the World Trade Organization: Secretariat Influence on Trade-Environment Politics," Global Environmental Politics. Forthcoming 2010
• Jinnah, Sikina, Douglas Bushey, Miquel Muñoz, and Kati Kulovesi. "Tripping Points: Barriers and Bargaining Chips on the Road to Copenhagen," Environmental Research Letters. Forthcoming 2009
• Jinnah, Sikina and Stefan Jungcurt (2009). "Could International Access Requirements Hinder Your Research?" Science. 323(5913):644-645
• Jinnah, S. "Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol: NAFTA and WTO Concerns," Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 15 (2003).

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