Janelle Knox-Hayes is currently an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a research associate at the Oxford University Department of Geography and Environment.  She is interested in the political and economic dynamics underpinning energy transition and sustainable development. Her current research focuses on the institutional development of carbon emissions markets in the United States and Europe. She is concurrently researching the role of security in shaping climate policy.  Born in 1983 in Cortez, Colorado, Janelle studied abroad for a year in Germany before matriculating at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000.  She studied for a year in Japan and received her degree in Ecology (Summa Cum Laude), Japanese and International Relations in 2004. In 2009, Janelle completed her PhD in Economic Geography at the University of Oxford as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. Her dissertation research investigated the development of carbon emissions markets looking through the lens of regulatory and financial service institutions. In her free time Janelle enjoys traveling and making ceramics.