Mark Purdon

Mark Purdon is a professor at the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM). Since 2021 he has also held the Chair in Decarbonization.

Mark is an expert in the emerging field of comparative environmental politics, which combines elements of comparative politics, comparative public policy and international relations. He is particularly interested in the relationship between climate change policy and political economy, with extensive research experience in both the developing and developed worlds. Other elements of Mark’s research include the international politics of climate finance, with a particular interest in the nascent North America carbon market established between Quebec and California. Mark has also actively participated in nearly every Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC since 2005.

Amongst various publications, in 2024, he published a book with Oxford University Press entitled "The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries: Carbon Markets, Climate Funds, and the State".

Mark earned a PhD in political science at the University of Toronto in 2013 and completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Economics in 2014.