Speaker: Nina Kelsey, Assistant Professor, Public Policy and International Affairs, The George Washington University
“Green Spirals: Feedback Dynamics in Environmental Policymaking”

Nina Kelsey is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs with a joint appointment to The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Her research examines the role of interests in environmental policymaking and negotiation. In particular, she focuses how changes to interests can occur over time, especially via feedback, and how these changes shape environmental policymaking at international, national, and subnational levels. Recent publications include ‘International ozone negotiations and the green spiral’ (Global Environmental Politics, forthcoming) and ‘Sequencing to ratchet up climate policy stringency’ (Nature Climate Change, 2018).