Dr. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck is the Director of the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), a partnership of UNEP and the Graduate Institute, housed at the Geneva Trade Platform. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Global Governance Centre, where she leads a research project on transforming the global plastics economy, supported by the Swiss Network of International Studies. She is an Associate Fellow of the Chatham House and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Global Economic Governance Programme.
Carolyn Deere Birkbeck
Director, Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS)
Specialist in
Multilateral trade policy, trade and environment, sustainable development, intellectual property, food and agriculture, governance and scrutiny, health, human rights, impact assessments, industrial policy, labour rights, public services and government procurement