Paul Bowles

Paul is a Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George Campus, where he has been teaching since 1993. Paul did his graduate work in England at the L.S.E. (PhD) and Sussex (M.A.) and taught at Southampton, Bristol and Sussex before moving to Canada. After six years at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, he moved to UNBC where he was the Founding Chair in Economics. Paul’s research interests lie in the areas of globalization and development. He has looked particularly at the political economy of development in China, Asian regionalism and the international monetary system. He also does research on the BC economy and on how global trends are experienced at local levels.

Karin Buhmann

Karin’s research and teaching focus on sustainability and responsible business conduct (RBC) with a particular emphasis on social issues, especially climate change mitigation, business responsibilities for human rights, and sustainable finance. Next to her professorship in Business and Human Rights at Copenhagen Business School, Karin is a full professor and Head of the Centre for the research initiative Centre for Law, Sustainability and Justice at the University of Southern Denmark.

Dorothee Cambou

Dr Dorothee Cambou is Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science at the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki. Her research focus lies in international law and human rights. Her expertise is in the field of indigenous peoples’ rights, land and resource governance, self-determination, environmental and social justice, as well as Arctic studies.

Pamela Lesser

Pamela is currently evaluating the existing research on sustainable mining in the Nordic countries in order to determine the gaps and future research needs on this topic, as well as looking at how impact and benefit agreements might be tailored to the Nordic countries to function as a bridge between their legal/regulatory systems and the growing influence of the social license to operate concept in the region.

Adam Stepien

Adam Stepien is a political scientist. His interests include: policy coherence, Arctic governance, law and cooperation, indigenous governance, participatory decision-making, as well as development cooperation partnerships. Adam took part in several projects dedicated to the EU and the Arctic. The latter is the topic of his ongoing PhD.

Guest speakers

Per Sandström

Anna Skarin

Facilitators & Academic support

Giuseppe Amatulli

Giuseppe is currently a post-doc researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT, Tromsø), where he is part of the Arctic Silk Road research group. From September 2018 until June 2022, he was enrolled in the Durham Arctic PhD Programme, Durham University, UK. He carried out his doctoral fieldwork in Fort St. John (July 2019-August 2020), observing how the cumulative effects of Industrial Development had affected the culture, lifestyle and socio-economic organisation of the Doig and the BlueBerry River First Nation. For this Academy, he is the media manager (website, podcasts, etc.) and will be facilitating the creation of the blog pieces students are required to submit at the end of the Academy.

Miriam Czarski

Miriam Czarski is a Doctoral Researcher in Law with the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. After qualifying as a solicitor and barrister in Canada in 2018, she completed her Master of Law in International Law at the University of Cambridge. Her research traverses the fields of international law, sustainability law, the law of the sea, and Arctic governance. Via her doctoral research, Miriam explores the simultaneous wonder and welter that is an ecosystem (-based) governance under international law, vis-à-vis the Arctic Ocean.

Daniel Placeres

An international law & IR master’s student with experience in multilateral diplomacy, humanitarian affairs, development, (I)NGOs, disarmament, refugee & migration policy, and communications. As a polyglot, I strive in multicultural environments, working with people of diverse backgrounds, expertise and vision. Inspiration from my peers is what keeps me going further. Subjects of particular interest right now: PRC’s foreign policy, energy politics of Central Asia, global environmental governance, rule of law, and soft power.