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Michael Renner
Senior Researcher and Director of the Global Security Project
Email: mrenner@worldwatch.org
Phone: +1 (631) 369-6896
Michael Renner is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute and Director of the Institute’s Global Security Project. His main research areas are peace and security, resources and conflict, post-disaster peacemaking, and jobs and the environment. Michael is currently coordinating a research project on “Green Jobs: Towards Sustainable Work in a Low-Carbon World” as part of the Green Jobs Initiative launched jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the International Trade Union Congress. As director of Worldwatch’s Global Security project, Michael helped coordinate the State of the World 2005 report on “Redefining Global Security” and spearheaded research examining the opportunities for peacemaking in the wake of un-natural disasters.
Michael’s writing has appeared in a wide range of print and online publications, including the Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, El País, and Frankfurter Rundschau. He has appeared on radio and television programs including the BBC, CNN, NPR, and Voice of America. Michael has spoken at numerous events, including those sponsored by: the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. State Department, the European Parliament, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Wilton Park/British Foreign Office, the MacArthur Foundation, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, the Global Development Network, the Norwegian Social Forum, the Confederation of Spanish Trade Unions, the World Bank, and a variety of United Nations venues.
Before joining Worldwatch in 1987, Michael was a Corliss Lamont Fellow in Economic Conversion at Columbia University (1986–87) and a research associate at the World Policy Institute in New York City (1984–86). He serves on the board of the New York-based Global Policy Forum and on the advisory council of the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague/Brussels.
Michael was born and raised in Germany. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he received a Master’s degree in international relations. He lives with his wife and two children on Long Island, New York.
Selected Publications
Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace, June 2007 (co-authored with Zoë Chafe).
The Anatomy of Resource Wars, Worldwatch Paper 162, October 2002.
Working for the Environment: A Growing Source of Jobs, Worldwatch Paper 152, September 2000.
Author of eight other Worldwatch Papers.
