Hélène Benveniste
King Center on Global Development
Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences
Department of Environmental Social Sciences
Steven and Roberta Denning Faculty Fellow
Global Governance for Sustainability
Hélène Benveniste is an assistant professor in the Global Environmental Policy unit of the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She works on international environmental policy and politics, with focuses on climate-related human migration and global governance of environmental issues. In her research, she uses both quantitative and qualitative methods drawn from political and other social sciences. Her work has appeared in scientific journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Climate Change. Prior to joining Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.