Aarti Gupta

Aarti Gupta is Professor of Global Environmental Governance at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the contested politics of transparency and accountability in global environmental and climate governance, and the challenges of anticipatory governance of novel technologies, such as biotechnology and climate engineering. She has published widely on these topics, including Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives (2014, MIT Press). She is principal investigator of the TRANSGOV research project on the Transformative Potential of Transparency in Climate Governance (https://trans-gov.org/) and co-lead of the REIMAGINE consortium project on anticipatory climate governance in vulnerable regions of the global South. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance (ESG) research alliance, and series co-editor of the Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance, published by Cambridge University Press. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from Yale University, with a background in political science, international relations, and science and technology studies.