Robert Falkner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests are in international political economy, with special emphasis on global environmental politics, multinational corporations, risk regulation and global governance. He is an associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE and an associate fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House. After reading politics and economics at Munich University, he gained a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford. Before joining the LSE, Robert held teaching positions at the universities of Munich, Oxford, Kent and Essex. In 2006-07, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).