Rate My Professor Lorraine Elliott

Professor Lorraine Elliott is Professor Emerita in the Department of International Relations in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. She holds a BA and MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland and a PhD from ANU. Her career encompasses roles such as Reader in International Relations and Director of Studies for the MA (International Relations) programme at the University of Warwick, visiting professor and fellow at the University of Nottingham (Highfield Fellow), Balliol College Oxford, the London School of Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, Keele University, and Sheffield University, and adjunct faculty in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston. Within ANU, she was Associate Dean for Higher Degree Research in the College of Asia and the Pacific, a member of the College Executive, and an elected member of the ANU Academic Board. She has taught graduate courses on global governance, non-traditional security, human security, IR theory, and research methods.

Elliott's research specializations include global governance and critical human security, transnational environmental crime, regionalism and environmental governance in Southeast Asia, justice in low carbon transition pathways, environmental security, climate security and human security in the Asia Pacific (including food security and climate migration), the UN system, and global environmental ethics drawing on cosmopolitan theory. Notable publications feature the book The Global Politics of the Environment (2nd ed.), chapters on Climate Diplomacy, Combating Transnational Environmental Crime, and recent articles including Ambiguity and Decarbonization Pathways in Southeast Asia (2023), Managing Decarbonisation: Transitions Justice and the Importance of Recognition (2023), and Australian IR Scholarship on the Environment: The Recent Past and the Possible Future (2021). She chaired the International Board of the Academic Council on the UN System (2018-2020), served as Lead Faculty for the Earth System Governance research network and on its Scientific Steering Committee (2019-2021), and holds memberships on advisory committees for the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Elliott has contributed as an expert reviewer for UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook and IPCC Working Group III, and as an invited expert for ASEAN and the UK-Singapore COP-26 Universities Network.