Dr. Hélène Benveniste

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Hélène Benveniste is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability. Her research focuses on international environmental policy, specifically addressing climate-related human migration and global governance related to environmental issues. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods drawn from political and social sciences in her work, which has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Climate Change. Prior to her position at Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she also completed her Master's degree. Her academic appointments include being the Steven Roberta Denning Faculty Fellow in Global Governance and Sustainability at Stanford, as well as a Faculty Affiliate at the King Center for Global Development.

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