I am a sociologist based at Uppsala University, and also a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, both in Sweden. (I have previously also worked at Umeå University, Bristol University, and been an affiliated professor at the University of Graz.) My research is aimed at better protecting the global climate and natural environment, and focuses in particular on the politics of environmental policymaking. I have previously also studied economic globalization, political and social trust, and social science research methods. My first book—Free Traders: Elites, Democracy, and the Rise of Globalization—came out in 2019, with Oxford University Press. Currently, supported by the Swedish Research Council, I am leading a project about the decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions from economic growth. How can we achieve a stable global climate without constraining (most) economic activity?

Originally from Vancouver, Canada—on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples—I moved to Sweden in September 2017. In 2018, I joined the Institute for Futures Studies, as part of a team of researchers asking what moral duties we owe future generations, and now another group investigating the public support for different climate policies. Previously, I received PhD and MA degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from the University of Victoria. I've also had the good fortune to spend time as a researcher in Mexico, Italy, Washington DC, Ottawa, and Barcelona. Before moving to Sweden, where I was first based in Umeå, I worked at Bristol University in the UK for ten years.