Karen Bakker

rdf:langString Karen Bakker

rdf:langString Karen Bakker

rdf:langString Karen Bakker

rdf:langString Rhodes Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences , Trudeau Foundation Fellowship, Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

rdf:langString Bakker at UBC, 2018

rdf:langString Canadian

rdf:langString English, French, Spanish

rdf:langString Author, professor, researcher

rdf:langString Digital transformation, environmental governance, sustainability, water

rdf:langString Karen Bakker is a Canadian author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford, Bakker is a professor at the University of British Columbia. In 2022–2023 she will be on sabbatical leave at Harvard, as a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford University's Annenberg Fellowship in Communication, Canada's "Top 40 Under 40", and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. Bakker's current research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and environmental governance, digital environmental humanities, digital geographies, political ecology, and political economy. In the early part of her career, she focused on water and climate issues. More recently, she has begun focusing on digital tech and environmental futures studies: critical yet pragmatic projects that advance regenerative sustainability and environmental justice.