Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen

Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen is Associate Professor with the Public Administration and Policy Group of Wageningen University. She has a PhD in political science from Linköping University, Sweden and did her postdoc at Yale University, USA. For the past 25 years she has researched global public governance of the environment and particularly analysed the varying possibilities to hold states to account for the moral and legal obligations they take on in such governance. Her main research focus has been global climate and energy governance and she has followed the UNFCCC process for some 15 years, attending numerous COPs and other negotiation meetings. Sylvia is a member of the steering committee for RINGOs, the Research and Independent NGOs observer constituency for the UNFCCC with the task to facilitate the participation of researchers in the COPs. She is also a member of Climate Strategies, an NGO focusing on policy relevant research for addressing climate change.