International environmental politics and human rights powerhouse Peter Stoett, PhD, is changing the social justice landscape. Renowned for his tireless advocacy of social inclusion and sustainable development initiatives, he is passionate about promoting interdisciplinary research to mitigate critical issues. His diverse personal research agenda focuses on transnational environmental crime, marine pollution prevention, climate justice, and Canadian-American environmental relations. He has also worked extensively on genocide and war crimes prevention and punishment. On the global stage, he is collaborating on the development of a flagship United Nations (UN) publication, Global Environmental Outlook, and recently co-developed two UN-based MOOCs with the UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya. While in Tasmania on a recent sabbatical, he worked on marine plastic pollution prevention policies. Dr. Stoett also helped establish Future Earth, a major research consortium housed by Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. At UOIT, he aims to expand graduate and post-doctoral programs in burgeoning areas including environmental criminology, as well as undergraduate programs linked to sustainability studies, and to reaffirm the strong role of humanities in a highly technological age by exploring the ethical implications of artificial intelligence and mass surveillance. Previously, Dr. Stoett was Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montréal. He has taught in many countries including Costa Rica, Italy, the Netherlands, and England, as well as at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, and several Ontario universities. He has written, co-written and co-edited more than 10 books including the best-selling international relations textbook Global Politics; published over 50 journal articles and chapters in edited books. An early introduction to George Orwell’s 1984 dystopian image of the future prompted his lifelong interest in themes of state power and legitimacy, democracy and human rights, and resistance to oppression. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Arts in International Development and Canadian Government and Politics from the University of Guelph. Inspired by the birth of his first child, he moved into the study of global environmental sustainability and received his Doctorate in Political Studies from Queen's University in 1994.