Philip Schleifer

Philip Schleifer is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance at the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Previously to his appointment at the UvA, he was a Max Weber Fellow and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. Philip held visiting positions at Duke University and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Areas of specialization

• Transnational environmental governance
• International trade and sustainable development
• Political economy of natural resource governance
• Global value chains and Corporate Social Responsibility

Philip's research agenda focuses on the politics and governance of sustainability in the global economy. His past and present projects investigate the effectiveness and transparency of voluntary standards in global value chains, the design of hybrid biofuel governance in the European Union, and the political economy of sustainable commodity production in emerging economies. Philip's reserach work has been supported by various grant-giving bodies, including EU COST, Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, and Amsterdam Centre for European Studies. Currently, he is co-PI of the interdiciplinary research project Free, Fair & Green? Governing Europe’s Trade Relations in a Changing Global Economic Order.

Philip's work has been published by high impact journals and academic publishers, including Review of International Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Governance, Global Food Security, and Ecological Economics. Philip's new book Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy is forthcoming with MIT Press (2023).

Philip is a member of the UvA Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) program group. Moreover, he is an associate of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES), a research fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG), a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS), and an associate of the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains. His other activities include advisory and policy work for international organizations, civil society organizations, and governments. This includes the International Trade Centre, the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance, and the Dutch Government.