He is also the management committee chair of the European COST Action 'The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance: Risks and Opportunities' and deputy director and research coordinator of the Global Governance Project, a network of twelve leading European institutions in the field of global environmental governance. In addition, Philipp Pattberg is the academic director of a series of PhD training schools on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, supported by the EU Marie Curie Programme. His most recent publication is Private Institutions and Global Governance: The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability (2007).