Jeremy Baskin

Jeremy Baskin is a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne School of Government and is the joint coordinator of a cross-faculty network of Science, Technology & Society scholars at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the legitimacy and accountability of knowledge experts in policymaking, climate and energy policy, the notion of the Anthropocene, labor market policy, and changing understandings of the authority of science. His most recent book is titled Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature. He hails from South Africa where he was intimately involved in the anti-apartheid resistance and post-apartheid reconstruction. He is currently working on a PhD at the Australian National University (ANU) looking at “expert advice and the Covid pandemic.”