Kristin Dawkins is the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Vice President for International Programs.

Her own work has focused on food security, environmental policy and intellectual property rights. Kristin travels widely, representing the Institute at a broad range of international negotiations and conferences.

She has published numerous articles in journals from the U.S., France, Britain, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Malaysia, South Africa and elsewhere. She is the author of Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology and producer of The Ownership of Life: When Patents and Values Clash.

In 1991, Kristin Dawkins came to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy from the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, where she was senior writer for their international publication Consensus. From 1973 to 1989, Kristin worked in community development and related public policy in Philadelphia.

Kristin has a master's degree in City Planning, specializing in International Environmental Negotiation, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Go to Papers:

Biodiversity for Sale
Ten Reasons Why Farmers Should Think Twice Before Growing GE Crops
Washington DC Meeting on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Food Security, Farmers and A Fair Place for the South, 30 September - 4 October, 1998
Campaign to Ban the Patenting of Life
Balancing: Policies for Just and Sustainable Trade

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