Meet Dr. Ben Cashore, Next Visiting Fellow with the VELUX Chair in Corporate Sustainability

The Velux Endowed Chair in Corporate Sustainability is pleased to welcome Professor Ben Cashore to Copenhagen as a Velux Fellow, starting in August 2016.

The VELUX Chair, with funds from the VILLUM Foundation, aims at creating a thriving context for research at the intersection of private businesses, public policy and civil society. Fellowship is key to its activities and highly qualified scholars such as Professor Ben Cashore are treasured.

With a BA and MA from Carleton University and a PhD from the University of Toronto, Ben Cashore is today teaching at Yale in Environmental Governance & Political Science, as well as directing Yale’s Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative (GEM) and the Program on Forest Policy and Governance.

Professor Cashore’s research interests include the emergence of non-state, market-driven environmental governance; the impact of globalization, internationalization, and transnational networks on domestic policy choices; comparative environmental and forest policy development; and firm-level “beyond compliance” sustainability initiatives. His book, “Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority” (with Graeme Auld and Deanna Newsom), was awarded the International Studies Association’s 2005 Sprout Prize for the best book on international environmental policy and politics.” (https://environment.yale.edu/profile/cashore/brief_bio )

Cashore was awarded with the best article in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in 2001 and his research efforts have been focused on the international comparison of countries’ domestic forest regulations, between firm’s responses to US forest certifications, and the overall emergence of non-state market-driven global governance. 

Hopefully, the VELUX Chair research environment will offer a new ground for stimulating research and promising collaborations.