Michele M. BetsillMichele M. Betsill is a professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. She has more than twenty years' experience in researching non-state and sub-national actors in global environmental governance. Her books include Transnational Climae Change Governance (co-authored with members of the Leverhulme Network on Transnational Climate Change Governance, Cambridge, 2014), NGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations (co-edited with Elisabeth Corell, 2007), and Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (with Harriet Bulkeley, 2002). She was one of the founding leaders of the Earth System Governance Research Network and served on the scientific steering committee from 2008–18. Read More Read Less