Dr. Nathan Andrews began working at the UNBC in September 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies after having completed a PhD at the University of Alberta and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University, during which time he became a 2017 SSHRC Talent Award national finalist. His ongoing research explores the international political economy of natural resource extraction, examining angles such as corporate social responsibility, community development/wellbeing, sustainable livelihoods, social justice, human rights, and local content policies, among others. He is also interested in global norms that govern the activities of transnational corporations, such as the UN Global Compact, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. His peer-reviewed publications on some of these topics appear in such journals as Resources Policy, Business and Society Review, Africa Today, World Development, and the Journal of International Relations and Development. In addition to the specific focus on resource extraction, Dr. Andrews is also interested in broad international development topics which has resulted in two co-edited volumes titled Africa Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015 (Springer, 2015).At the moment, Dr. Andrews is completing a book manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation for Palgrave Macmillan. In the near future, he plans to expand his work on Africa to examine its connections with sites of resource extraction in Canada’s north – particularly the ramifications of oil and gas exploration for indigenous and First Nations communities. While always inspired by different research trajectories, Dr. Andrew is also very excited to be teaching courses on research methods, international regimes, and development as part of the global and international studies program. ​