LYNN M. WAGNER
501 Great Falls Street, Falls Church, VA 22046 USA
Tel: +703-967-4963; E-mail: lynn@iisd.org
EDUCATION
The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Ph.D. May 1998
• Dissertation: Problem Solving and Convergent Bargaining: An Analysis of Negotiation Processes and
their Outcomes
• Concentrations and coursework: International Relations Theory, American Foreign Policy, International
Economics, Bargaining and Negotiation, Principles and Practice of Conflict Management
M.A., May 1991
• Participated in: “Contemporary Hungary” program, Budapest, Hungary (Summer 1990); and “Young
Scientists Summer Program,” Processes of International Negotiation Project, International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria (Summer 1991)
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
B.A. in International Relations, May 1988
• Senior Thesis: Universal Human Rights
• Phi Beta Kappa, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
EXPERIENCE
The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, 2012-present
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Adjunct Instructor, Conflict Management and Resolution Department
• Teach Environmental Negotiations course to MA students
International Institute for Sustainable Development Reporting Services (IISD RS), New York, NY
Senior Manager, Knowledge Management, 2012-present
Manager, Knowledge Management Projects, 2006-2012
• Manage production and development of knowledgebase platforms and edit material written by 25 in-house
experts for projects including:
 Climate Change Policy & Practice, regarding international and UN activities responding to global
climate change (http://climate-l.iisd.org/);
 Sustainable Development Policy & Practice, regarding preparations for the 2012 UN Conference on
Sustainable Development (http://uncsd.iisd.org/);
 Biodiversity Policy & Practice, regarding actions addressing international biodiversity policy
(http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org/);
 SIDS Policy & Practice, regarding international actions to address the sustainable development of
small island developing states (SIDS) (http://sids-l.iisd.org/);
 MEA Bulletin, regarding the activities of multilateral environmental agreements and their
secretariats (http://www.iisd.ca/email/mea-l.htm); and
 Linkages Update, news on international environment and sustainable development issues
(http://www.iisd.ca/email/linkagesupdate.htm)
Thematic Expert, 2000-present
• Research and write reports on sustainable development and desertification issues for all knowledge
management projects
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• Contribute to and coordinate and edit IISD RS contribution to 2005 and 2006 Global Overview section in
the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook Yearbook (2006 and 2007)
Team Leader/Writer, 1994-present
• Manage teams of four to six writers and supervise final editing process for production of Earth
Negotiations Bulletin – daily reports and summary analyses of UN environmental negotiations
University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV, 2000-2001
Adjunct Instructor, Political Science Department
• Taught introductory level World Politics and upper-division and graduate level Global Environmental
Policy and Environmental Politics courses
• Thesis advisor for senior honors student
PUBLICATIONS
Chasek, Pamela S., and Lynn M. Wagner. (eds). 2012. The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty
Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations. Abingdon: Routledge/Resources for the Future.
Chasek, Pamela S. and Lynn M. Wagner. 2012. An Insider’s Guide to Multilateral Environmental
Negotiations since the Earth Summit. In The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years
of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations, eds. Pamela S. Chasek and Lynn M. Wagner.
Abingdon: Routledge/Resources for the Future.
Davenport, Debora, Lynn M. Wagner and Chris Spence. 2012. Earth Negotiations on a Comfy Couch:
Building Negotiator Trust through Innovative Processes. In The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned
from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations, eds. Pamela S. Chasek and Lynn M.
Wagner. Abingdon: Routledge/Resources for the Future.
Wagner, Lynn M., Reem Hajjar and Asheline Appleton. 2012. Global Alliances to Strange Bedfellows: The
Ebb and Flow of Negotiating Coalitions. In The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty
Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations, eds. Pamela S. Chasek and Lynn M. Wagner.
Abingdon: Routledge/Resources for the Future.
Chasek, Pamela S., Lynn M. Wagner and Peter Doran. 2012. The Road from Rio: Lessons Learned from
Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations. In The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned
from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations, eds. Pamela S. Chasek and Lynn M.
Wagner. Abingdon: Routledge/Resources for the Future.
Wagner, Lynn and Daniel Druckman. 2012. The Role of Justice in Historical Negotiations. Negotiation and
Conflict Management Research, Vol. 5: 1, pp. 49-71.
Spector, Bertram I., and Lynn M. Wagner. (eds). 2010. Negotiating International Development, Special
Issue. International Negotiation, Volume 15: 3.
Spector, Bertram I., and Lynn M. Wagner. 2010. Negotiating International Development. International
Negotiation, Volume 15: 3, pp. 327-340.
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Wagner, Lynn M., and Mwangi, Wagaki. 2010. Be Careful What You Compromise For: Postagreement
Negotiations within the UN Desertification Convention. International Negotiation, Volume 15: 3,
pp. 439-458.
Wagner, Lynn M. 2008. Problem-Solving and Bargaining in International Negotiations. Leiden, The
Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Chasek, Pamela and Lynn M. Wagner. 2008. Putting The Practical Negotiator to the Test: Two
examinations of the formula-details proposition. In Conflict Management and African Politics:
Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation, eds. Terrence Lyons and Gilbert Khadiagala. Abingdon:
Routledge.
Wagner, Lynn M. 2008. Identifying U.S. Preferences and a Way Forward in the Ozone, Climate and Forests
Regimes. Global Environmental Politics 8: 1.
Wagner, Lynn M. 2007. North-South Divisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Negotiating the
Private Sector’s Role in Three Rio Agreements. International Negotiation 12: 1, pp. 83-109.
Wagner, Lynn M. 2005. A Commission Will Lead Them?: The UN Commission on Sustainable
Development and UNCED Follow-Up. In Global Challenges: Furthering the Multilateral Process
for Sustainable Development, eds. Angela Churie Kallhauge, Gunnar Sjöstedt and Elisabeth Corell.
Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Wagner, Lynn M. 2003. The Mediterranean Action Plan. In Getting It Done: Post-agreement Negotiation
and International Regimes, eds. Bertram I. Spector and I. William Zartman. Washington, DC: USIP
Press.
Zartman, I. William and Lynn M. Wagner. 2000. Snake in the Tunnel: Monetary Negotiations in the
European Union. In International Economic Negotiation: Models versus Reality, eds. Victor
Kremenyuk and Gunnar Sjostedt. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Wagner, Lynn M. 1999. Negotiations in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development: Coalitions,
Processes and Outcomes. International Negotiation 4: 2, pp. 107-131.
Wagner, Lynn M. Various Years. Drought/Desertification. In Yearbook of International Environmental Law.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 with Elisabeth
Corell; 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 single author).
Zartman, I. William, Pamela Chasek and Lynn M. Wagner. 1996. The Internationalization of North African
Environmental Concerns. In The North African Environment at Risk, eds. Will D. Swearingen and
Abdellatif Bencherifa. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Wagner, Lynn M. 1991. Processes for Impasse Resolution. IIASA Working Paper 91-43. Laxenburg,
Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
International Studies Association (ISA) annual meetings:
• If at First You Don’t Succeed: Four Structures to Deliver Scientific Advice to the UN Convention to
Combat Desertification (2012)
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• Global Alliances to Strange Bedfellows: The Ebb and Flow of Negotiating Coalitions (co-authored with
Reem Hajjar and Asheline Appleton; 2011)
• Too Close for Comfort?: Theory, Practice and Politics of Participatory Research in Global Environmental
Politics (2010)
• Institutional Design by Compromise and its Consequences (co-authored with Wagaki Mwangi; 2009)
• International Environmental Policy Impasses and Creative Dispute Resolution Processes: Earth
Negotiations from a Comfy Couch (co-authored with Deborah Davenport; 2007)
• Negotiating a Role for the Private Sector in International Environmental Agreements: Evolving Times and
North- South Divisions (2006)
• Managing Global Resources: Issues and Challenges for International Environmental Organizations (2000)
• Negotiations in the UN CSD: Coalitions, Processes and Outcomes (1999)
• Problem Solving and Convergent Bargaining: An Analysis of Negotiation Processes and Outcomes (1998)
International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) annual meetings:
• A Forty-Year Search for a Single-Negotiating Text: Rio+20 as a Post-Agreement Negotiation (2013)
• Observations on Multilateral Environmental Diplomacy from 1992-2012 (2011)
• Procedural Justice, Problem Solving and Negotiation Outcomes: Research Notes from Eleven Historical
Case Studies (2011)
• Procedural Justice, Problem Solving, and Negotiation Outcomes (co-authored with Daniel Druckman;
2010)
• Earth Negotiations from a Comfy Couch: International Environmental Policy Impasses and Creative
Dispute Resolution Processes (co-authored with Deborah Davenport; 2008)
• An Inventory of Conflict Resolution Approaches (1992); received “Best Paper Award for International
Conflict Track”
Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community:
• Vertical Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Regime: Middle-Level Structures for Implementation
(co-authored with Elisabeth Corell) (2003)
INVITED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Discussant at workshop on “International Environmental Negotiations: Innovations from Research,
Simulation, Game and Practice?” Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
(IDDRI), Paris, France, 17 December 2012.
IISD Reporting Service’s Knowledge Management Project. Presented at UN Inter-Agency Knowledge Fair
on UN Effectiveness in Knowledge Sharing, Turin, Italy, 16-18 November 2010.
Knowledge management for land degradation monitoring and assessment: an analysis of contemporary
thinking. Contributing author of White Paper prepared for First Scientific Conference of the
Committee on Science and Technology of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, September
2009.
Scientific Panels as Arbiters of Scientific Advice for Decision Makers. Presented to Conflict Resolution
Program 25th Anniversary Conference, organized by the Conflict Resolution Program, Johns
Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Washington, DC, 30
November 2007.
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Science-based decision making: Options for increasing the impact of UN decision making and scientific
support to the political process. Presented to UN Ambassadors’ Meeting on International
Environmental Governance, organized by the International Institute for Sustainable Development
and the Danish Embassy. New York, NY, 16 October 2007.
How to Track the Negotiations. Presented during the eighth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention
to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to a Journalist Training course sponsored by COM+, the
UNCCD and TerrAfrica. Madrid, Spain, 10 September 2007.
Current Debates in the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Presented at MEA Trends Workshop,
hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development Reporting Services and
Institutional Dimensions for Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). Bali, Indonesia, 6 December
2006.
A way to success: Where has the UNCCD to go? Presented at Desertification Control and Governance
Conference, GTZ Haus. Berlin, Germany, 7 September 2006
Negotiations in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Presented to the course International
Environmental Negotiations, Royal Institute of Technology. Stockholm, Sweden, 26-28 September
2001.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Peer-review articles for academic journals: Climate Policy, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal
of International Relations, Global Environmental Politics, International Negotiation, International Politics,
Natural Resources Forum
International review panel in the preparation of the 2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change
Academic Associations: International Studies Association, International Association for Conflict
Management, Phi Beta Kappa