Professor Profile

Matthew Paterson

Matthew Paterson's work focuses on the intersection of global political economy and global environmental politics. He has worked in particular, for over 20 years, on climate change politics and is currently working on the politics of carbon markets, transnational climate change governance. He has also written a prize-winning book entitled Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy. His most recent book (co-authored with Peter Newell) is Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy (Cambridge, 2010) and he is currently a lead author for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [Twitter: @MatPaterson]

Telephone : 613-562-5800 ext. 1716
E-Mail Address : Matthew.Paterson@uOttawa.ca
WWW : http://matpaterson.wordpress.com/
Office (building, room number) :
Social Science Building, 7025

Office hours : Friday 10:00 - 11:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 By Skype at matpwork


  • Full Professor
  • Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

University Degrees :

  • Ph.D., Government, University of Essex, 1994
  • B.A., Combined Honours (History and Politics), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990

Research Interests :

  • Climate change politics
  • Global environmental governance
  • Global environmental politics
  • International Relations Theory
  • International/global political economy
Matthew Paterson