Matthew Hoffman is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He has a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering from Michigan Technological University and a PhD in international relations from the George Washington University. His research and teaching interests include global governance, climate change politics, complexity theory, and agent-based modelling. He is the author of
Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: Constructing a Global Response (SUNY Press 2005) and co-editor with Alice Ba of
Contending Perspectives on Global Governance (Routledge 2005).
His current research projects include a study of climate governance experiments through the lens of self-organized criticality, and a SSHRC funded project (with Mat Paterson, Steven Bernstein, and Michele Betsill) on the emergence and development of carbon markets.
