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Dr. Will Greaves

Network Co-Lead

Will Greaves is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria, British Columbia where his research focuses on climate change and security, North American security and defence, and Arctic geopolitics. He has authored more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and co-written three books: One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance (2017), Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic (2021), and Canadian Ecopolitics (2025). Professor Greaves is Co-Lead for Climate and Environment with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network/Réseau sur la defense et la sécurité nord-américaines et arctiques (NAADSN/RDSNAA, a member of the NATO Research Task Group on Climate Change and Security, and a founding executive member of the Climate Security Association of Canada (CSAC). He was previously Lead for Climate and Security with the Canadian Defence and Security Network/Réseau canadien de défence et de sécurité (CDSN/RCDS) and the Réseau d’analyse stratégique/Network for Strategic Analysis (RAS/NSA), and was a Newport Arctic Security scholar at the U.S. Naval War College, Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Lecturer at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Professor Greaves holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, MA from the University of Calgary, and BA (Honours) from Bishop’s University. You can read more about his work at www.willgreaves.ca.