Team Member

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.
- NAADSN Quick Impact: Framing Arctic Security: NAADSN Members’ Opening Comments to the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, contributions from Wilfrid Greaves, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Suzanne Lalonde, Andreas Østhagen, and Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, March 2022
- Reading List: Climate Change and Security, by Wilfrid Greaves, July 2021
- Engage Series: On Thin Ice? Perspectives on Arctic Security, edited by Duncan Depledge and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, March 2021
- Special Report: Understanding the Future Arctic Security Environment: Applying NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis to Canadian Arctic Defence and Security, November 2020. [also available in high resolution (58MB) version]
- Strategic Perspective: North American Arctic Security Expectations in a New U.S. Administration, by Troy Bouffard, Wilfrid Greaves, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, and Nancy Teeple, November 2020
- Policy Brief: Democracy, Donald Trump, and the Canada-US Security Environment, by Wilfrid Greaves, May 2020
- Reading List: The Arctic Security Environment: Competition and Cooperation, by Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, May 2020