Matthew R. Auer

Matthew R. Auer is dean and arch professor of public and international affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia (UGA). Prior to his appointment at UGA, Auer served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Prior to Bates, Auer was dean of the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University (IU) and professor of international environmental affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU.

Auer has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on environmental, energy, and foreign aid policy. He has served in a variety of public policy roles at national and international levels. Auer was senior adviser to the U.S. Forest Service from 2001 to 2006, and during that time was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Forum on Forests and to the International Tropical Timber Council. Auer has implemented and evaluated energy and environmental aid programs on behalf of U.S. federal agencies or other governments in, among other countries, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, Laos, Mexico, Poland, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Auer received a Ph.D. (1996), an M.S. (1994) and an M.Phil. (1993) in forestry and environmental studies from Yale, a master of law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1990), and an A.B. in anthropology from Harvard University (1988).