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Sheila R. Foster is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Climate School.
Her research spans a broad range of topics, including innovative resource governance regimes, land use policy, and the role of subnational governments and local leaders in addressing cross-border challenges such as climate change.
From 2017-2020, she served as the chair of the advisory board for the Global Parliament of Mayors and since 2016 has been an appointed member of the New York City Mayor's Panel on Climate Change (serving as co-chair of the Equity Workgroup). Foster is co-editor and a founding Advisory Board member of the Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice.
Foster also co-directs LabGov, a ground-breaking platform that pioneered the award-winning Co-City approach applied in various cities around the world, helping to reorient cities toward more collaborative and place-based solutions to urban challenges. This approach is detailed in her award-winning MIT Press book, Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions Toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities (with Christian Iaione).
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Foster is a leading scholar of environmental and climate justice. Her work has been recognized by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law with its 2018 Senior Scholarship Award. She was recently elected as a fellow to the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Her influential scholarship is published in top law journals like Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, Notre Dame and in books by NYU Press, MIT press, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.
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