Biography

Doreen Stabinsky is Professor of Global Environmental Politics at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She studied economics at the undergraduate level and has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis.

She has held positions with and advised non-governmental organizations on topics related to genetic engineering and agriculture, most recently as an agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace International. She has represented various NGOs and College of the Atlantic in numerous intergovernmental forums, including the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, and the World Trade Organization.

Her primary area of research, policy analysis and advocacy currently is at the nexus between climate change, agriculture and food security.