Matthew "Matt" R. Auer is an American

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and environmental scholar. Auer served as the

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and vice president for academic affairs at

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before being appointed the current Dean of the

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; he assumed office on July 1, 2017. Auer had also previously served as the Dean of the Hutton Honors College at

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universi ...

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, and was a professor at the

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Early life and education

Auer earned an AB in

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, '' magna cum laude'', from

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in 1988, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the

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, and a

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. in Forestry and Environmental Studies from

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in 1996.

Early educational career

He is the former Dean of the Hutton Honors College at

. At Indiana University, he taught environmental policy, public policy, and public administration at

Society of Policy Scientists

From 2005 to 2008, he was

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of the public policy journal, ''

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'', and he currently serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Policy Scientists.

U.S. Forest Service

Auer served as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Forest Service from 2001 to 2006. During that time, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the

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and to the International Tropical Timber Council, the governing body of the

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(ITTO). For the

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and other bilateral aid agencies, he has developed, implemented, and evaluated energy and environmental programs in, among other countries, the

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Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...

, Bolivia,

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, Laos, and

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. He has also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at

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Bates College

Auer was appointed as the Dean of Faculty of Bates College on July 1, 2013. Auer has received more than a dozen teaching awards including the President's Award. On February 1, 2017, it was announced that Auer was appointed to a senior level position within the

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by the college's president,

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University of Georgia

In early February 2017, the University of Georgia announced that Auer had been named

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of the

. He assumed office on July 1, 2017 following an induction ceremony.

Notable publications

* Auer, Matthew. 2008. “Presidential Environmental Appointees in Comparative Perspective,” ''

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'', 68(1): 68-80. * Auer, Matthew. 2006. “Contexts, Multiple Methods, and Values in the Study of Common-Pool Resources,” ''

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'', 25(1): 215-227. * Auer, Matthew. 2004. (Ed.) ''Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. * Auer, Matthew. 2000. “Who Participates in Global Environmental Governance? Partial Answers from International Relations Theory,” ''Policy Sciences'', 33(2): 155-180. * Auer, Matthew. 1998. “Colleagues or Combatants? Experts as Environmental Diplomats,” ''International Negotiation'', 3(2): 267-287.

References

External links

Indiana University Hutton Honors College

''Policy Sciences'' journal

International Tropical Timber Organization
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