Sylvain Maechler

Doctorant et attaché d’enseignement en relations internationales et politique environnementale à l’IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques) de Lausanne.

Sylvain Maechler is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in international relations and global environmental politics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The title of his PhD thesis is “Accounting with nature: measuring risk and uncertainty in the age of ecological crisis”. His research focuses on the governance of capitalism in the face of the twin ecological and economic crises, with a special interest on international standards, private regulations, risk policies, corporate reporting and environmental accounting.