Dr. Mikael Román is Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), with a PhD in political science from Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden.

He specializes in the areas of: policy implementation and evaluation; international relations; science, technology and public policy; environmental regulation; and corporate strategies.

Before joining SEI, Román had a Senior Researcher position at Stockholm School of Economics, and between 2000 and 2002 he was a “Wallenberg post-doc scholar” at Center for International Studies, MIT.

In recent years, Román has worked extensively on energy and climate change issues, with particular focus on the United States and South America, mainly Brazil.

Publications

• Tipping Point: Crossroads for US Climate Policy (2010)

• Sea Change: US Climate Policy Prospects Under the Obama Administration (2009)

• Biofuels Sustainability Criteria Relevant issues to the proposed Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (2008)

• Higher education as a change agent for sustainability in different cultures and contexts (2008)

• Labelling and Sustainability: the Case of Specialty Coffee (2008)

• What order in progress? Brazilian energy policies and climate change in the 21st Centruy (2007)

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Projects

• The Copenhagen Theatre: China, US and the formation of the BASIC alliance