Stacy D. VanDeveer is an associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and an instructor at Harvard University Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the role of expertise in policymaking and the politics of consumption and environmental and human rights degradation in global commodities markets. He spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government after getting his Ph.D from the University of Maryland. He has received research funding from the (US) National Science Foundation, the Embassy of Canada, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, working papers and reports and two co-edited books. During the 2006-2007 academic year, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. In 2007-2008, he was On-site Director of the UNH London Program at Regents College. He remains Co-Director of the MA program in Political Science at UNH and he was the Interim Director of the UNH Center for International Education in the first half of 2010.