Dr. Diarmuid Torney is an Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government. He has led research projects funded by the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland and the National Economic and Social Council of Ireland, and has been appointed as a lead author on Ireland’s first Five Year Assessment Report on climate change, which will be published in late 2022.

He is author of European Climate Leadership in Question: Policies toward China and India (MIT Press, 2015) and co-editor of Ireland and the Climate Crisis (Palgrave, 2020) and European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders (Palgrave, 2018).

He was central to the establishment of, and teaches on, DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society.

He is the chair of the Future Earth Ireland national committee convened by the Royal Irish Academy, a member of the Executive Committee of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, the academic advisory member on the Steering Committee of Coalition 2030, and a member of the Expert Working Group on Sustainability of Chartered Accountants Ireland. In 2017 he served as a member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Citizens’ Assembly for its consideration of the topic “How the state can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change”.

He holds an MPhil and DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford, as well as BA and MA degrees from University College Dublin.