Global Sustainability Expert Dr. Micheal Dorsey Will be Speaking at Hampton, Central State, and Wayne State
Dr. Micheal Dorsey, the “Green Doctor” is a scholar and activist, with global expertise in climate impacts and climate policy. A Detroit native, Dr. Dorsey hones in on the intersection of justice, climate and the environment. Click read more below to check out his amazing bio, and make sure to come see him speak on our tour! Follow Dr. Dorsey on twitter @GreenHejira.
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Dr. Michael Dorsey is a recognized expert on global governance and sustainability. For more than two decades Dr. Dorsey has provided strategic guidance and advice to governments, foundations, firms and a multitude of others on the interplay of multilateral environment policy, finance and economic development matters. In 1992, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit.” From 1994-96 he was a task force member of President William Jefferson Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. In 1997, in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorsey was bestowed Rotary International’s highest honor, The Paul Harris Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity. A “Life member” of the Sierra Club, Michael served seven years as a Director on the Club’s national board.
Presently Dr. Dorsey is the interim Director of the energy and environment program at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Dr. Dorsey also has extensive work experience around the world, maintaining longstanding collaborations with colleagues across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
In 1993 Dorsey’s first long-term work in Africa began at the Nairobi, Kenya based African Centre for Technology Studies. Almost a decade later, in 2002, Dorsey was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 2011 Dr. Dorsey has been visiting scholar at the University of KwaZuluNatal (UKZN), attached to the Centre on Civil Society in Durban, South Africa. Over the years Dr. Dorsey has been a perennial guest on SABC radio and TV.
In Asia Dr. Dorsey has worked closely with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); and extensively with firms and institutions in India and Thailand.
Across Europe Dorsey has been a visiting lecturer at various institutions, including the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Royal University of Groningen, The Netherlands) in 2001; in the Department of Regional Planning at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) in 2002. From 2001-2005 Dorsey was heavily involved in the What Next? Project at the Uppsala, Sweden based Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. Since 2008, Dr. Dorsey has been an Affiliated Researcher on the Sustainability and Climate Research Team at Erasmus University’s Research Institute of Management inside the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM-ERIM, The Netherlands). In 2013 Dr. Dorsey was inducted as a “Full member” into the Club of Rome –founded in 1968 as an informal association of independent leading personalities from politics, business and science.
Fluent in Spanish, from 1999 to 2001, Dorsey lived in Ecuador, as a legal, permanent resident. He served as a program director jointly with the Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo and Acción Ecológica. At Acción Ecológica Dorsey co-led and fundraised for an initiative monitoring the commercialization of biodiversity in Ecuador as well as the other four countries in the Andean Pact. Subsequently he advised the Ecuadorian Institute for Intellectual Property (IEPI)—an Ecuadorian government agency.
From April 2007 until November 2008 Dr. Dorsey was a member of Senator Barack Obama’s energy and environment Presidential campaign team. In 2009 the Ford Foundation, recognized Dr. Dorsey’s ongoing contribution to examining the interplay of climate change policy, finance and social justice concerns with an inaugural grant for the Climate Justice Research Project, supporting research on how emerging carbon markets shape justice-based climate policies. In July 2010 Lisa Jackson, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US- EPA) Administrator, appointed Dr. Dorsey to the EPA’s National Advisory Committee (NAC). Administrator Jackson reappointed Dr. Dorsey to the US-EPA NAC in 2012. Further in the fall of 2013 the National Journal named Dr. Dorsey one of 200 national “energy and environment expert insiders”.
From 2012-13 Dr. Dorsey was a visiting fellow and professor of environmental studies in Wesleyan University’s College of the Environment. Prior to Wesleyan he was an assistant professor in Dartmouth College’s Environmental Studies Program and the Director of the College’s Climate Justice Research Project. Dorsey’s articles have appeared in Nature; Carbon Market Europe; Journal of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA); the Los Angeles Times; and beyond. Dr. Dorsey’s scholarly work focuses, in part, on how multilateral finance instruments impact climate and biodiversity policy.
Dr. Dorsey is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (B.S. & Ph.D.), Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (M.F.S.) and The Johns Hopkins University (M.A.). Before joining Dartmouth’s faculty, he held the college’s Thurgood Marshall Fellowship in Environmental Studies and Geography.
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