Hamish van der Ven Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business Management of Natural Resources in the Department of Wood Science and Faculty of Forestry at UBC where he runs the Business, Sustainability and Technology Lab. He is also affiliated with the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto, the Earth System Governance Project and the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards.

His research interests include sustainable production, eco-labeling, transnational governance, corporate social responsibility, and the impact of digital technologies on the environment.

His work has been published in Business Strategy and the Environment, Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, Organization & Environment, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Business and Politics. Hamish’s book – Beyond Greenwash? Explaining Credibility in Transnational Eco-Labeling – was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.