Vally Koubi is a Lecturer and Professor (Honorary) at the Institute of Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a Professor (Titular) and Senior Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).
Curriculum Vitae
Vally Koubi was born in Greece, and is a citizen of Greece and the USA. She studied Public Law and Political Science at the Law School of the University of Athens, Greece (B.A. in 1983). She received an M.S. in Public Policy (1985), an M.A. (1988) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (1991), all from the University of Rochester, USA. She has taught at the Department of Government and The Washington Semester Program at the American University in Washington D.C. (1989-1990), at the Department of Political Science of the University of Buffalo (1990-1991), and the Department of Political Science of the University of Georgia (1991-1998), USA. She has been a visiting professor at the Department of Political Science at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1994-1995), and at the Institute for European Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1997-1998). In 1996-1997, she was a TMR Fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is a member in the Scientific Council of the Geneva Science-Policy Platform on Environment and Security at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), contributed to the UN Sustainable Development Outlook 2019, and served as a Coordinating Lead Author in the 1st MedECC Report.
Research Area
Koubi’s research focuses on the social consequences of climate change and the determinants of domestic environmental policies and outcomes, as well as international environmental cooperation across countries and time. Her research on the social consequences of climate change aims at understanding the effects of extreme climate events on migration and conflict mainly in the developing world. This research combines perspectives from different social science disciplines and employs a wide range of research methods, including macro-quantitative analyses and micro-level surveys, survey experiments, and field experiments in several countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, and Vietnam. She has published articles in journals including American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Climatic Change, Ecological Economics, Environmental Research Letters, European Political Science Review, Global Environmental Politics, International Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Nature Climate Change, Population & Environment, Review of International Organizations, and World Development.