John S. Odell

John S. Odell is Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California (USC), and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He was a member of Harvard University’s faculty from 1976 through 1982, and from 1982 until 2012 he taught and wrote at the University of Southern California.  He directed USC’s Center for International Studies and its School of International Relations.  From 1992 through 1996 he served as Editor of International Organization, a leading academic journal of international relations.  He is the author or co-author of 3 books, co-editor of 3 others, and author of many research articles and commentaries on the politics of the world economy, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the process of international negotiation, including "Negotiating the World Economy" (Cornell, 2000), "Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in NAFTA and the WTO" (Cambridge, 2006), and “Negotiating Agreements in International Relations,” in Political Negotiation (Brookings, 2016).  He has lectured in many countries.  Currently he is working to improve global governance of climate change and US climate policy. He attended conferences of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima in 2014 and Paris in 2015, which produced the historic Paris Agreement.  He co-directs CIGI’s Fixing Climate Governance Project and other recent proposals include How the United States Can Do Much More on Climate and Jobs (CIGI, 2016).