Kyla Tienhaara
Non-Resident Research Fellow, Global Economic Governance Initiative
- Education
- PhD, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Master’s degree, Environmental Science and Law, University of Nottingham, UK
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science, minor in International Relations, University of British Columbia, Canada - kyla.tienhaara@queensu.ca
Dr. Kyla Tienhaara is a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. She is the Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment and an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies and Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University. Her research examines the intersection between environmental governance and the global economic system.
Her work on investment law has focused primarily on the subject of ‘regulatory chill,’ and has been published in a number of academic journals and in The Expropriation of Environmental Governance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Her recent report “Raising the cost of climate action? Investor-state dispute settlement and compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets,” co-authored with Lorenzo Cotula and published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), is the first to quantify the proportion and value of coal power plants that are protected by international treaties that include provisions for investor-state dispute settlement. Another area of Dr Tienhaara’s research focuses on green stimulus/green recovery programs and efforts around the world to launch a Green New Deal.
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- Fields
- GEGI and Researchers