Oran Young

Dr. Young is a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Specializing in the fields of Institutional and International Governance and Environmental Institutions, Dr. Young also serves as a Co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Dr. Young served for six years as Founding Chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. Dr. Young then chaired the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). He presently chairs the IHDP. An expert on governance of the Arctic, Young was vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee and is currently a leader in the development of a decentralized University of the Arctic.

Dr. Young's work as author or co-author of over twenty books and numerous scholarly articles includes, Governance in World Affairs; International Governance: Protecting the Environment in a Stateless Society; and International Cooperation: Building Regimes for Natural Resources and the Environment.