FACULTY AND RESEARCH

Berill Blair is Associate Professor of Sustainability at SKEMA Business School. Her research focuses on cycles of conservation and change in social-ecological systems, and the opportunities they create for organizations, key sectors, institutions and communities to form new partnerships addressing the sustainability grand challenge. In both research and education, she emphasizes ecosystem-based management, long-term perspectives, experimentation and bringing together academia and societal stakeholders in collaborative research.

Previously, Berill held two postdoctoral positions, most recently at the Environmental Systems Analysis Group at Wageningen University (Netherlands). Her postdoc work focused on responsible innovation in climate services for marine transport sectors, and sustainable water consumption in the tourism sector in coastal mass tourism destinations.

Berill received her PhD in Natural Resources and Sustainability at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA). Her dissertation examined sustainable community planning and resource development in Arctic Alaska, building on extensive fieldwork in collaboration with Iñupiat communities.

Since 2016 Berill has served as contributor for the Polar Research and Policy Inititative, a UK-based international think-tank dedicated to Arctic, Nordic, North Atlantic, North Pacific and Antarctic affairs.