Jeffrey Stark

Jeffrey Stark is Director of Research and Studies at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability (FESS). Since joining FESS in 2004, he has led environmental and climate security assessments in Uganda, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Nigeria, Peru, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and the Philippines. From 2006-2009, he supervised a three-year project to reclaim land for agriculture from mined-out artisanal diamond lands in Sierra Leone. From 2007-2012, Mr. Stark was a visiting professor at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica teaching an annual course for graduate students on natural resources and conflict in the developing world. In 2010-2013, he conducted a series of training workshops on environment and security in East Africa for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Previously, he was the Director of Research and Studies at the North-South Center of the University of Miami (1996-2003). He is co-editor of Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America (Lynne Rienner Publishers), winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book award, and most recently contributed to the “Blue Economy Policy Handbook for Africa” (UNECA, forthcoming 2016).