Dr. Michael K. Dorsey holds degrees from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment (B.S. & Ph.D.); Yale’s Forestry School (M.F.S) and the Anthropology Department at The Johns Hopkins University (M.A.). Dr. Dorsey researches international and domestic environmental (in)justice; with a focus on resource management conflicts. Currently he is writing a volume examining bio-commerce in Ecuador’s Upper Amazon basin. Dorsey teaches courses on the above as well as on international environmental policy issues.

In 1992 he was a member of the US State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: “The Earth Summit.” Dr. Dorsey continues to provide advice to governments, foundations, and others, on a variety of global environmental governance matters, including climate change and biodiversity policy, to better engage ongoing multilateral negotiations and processes.