SHEFA SIEGEL's research covers topics such as global governance, mercury pollution, and conflict in informal economies. He teaches global politics and runs the Global Affairs Speaker series at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. Previously, he was a research-scholar at UBC's Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. For more than a decade, he worked as a practitioner in international cooperation, specializing in resource governance, economic development, and the environment. Siegel has worked in fifteen countries and published essays, articles, and reviews about environment, mining, religion, and music in Ethics & International Affairs, Americas Quarterly, Haaretz, Environment 360, The Tyee, and Sojourners.