Philippe Evoy is a postdoctoral researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University, in partnership with the University of Michigan and McMaster University. He holds a PhD in environmental policy analysis and political science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Université Laval, and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before his doctoral studies, he served as an international relations advisor at the National Assembly of Québec from 2019 to 2021.
His research examines international environmental institutions governing areas beyond national jurisdiction. His doctoral thesis explored how power dynamics between states shape environmental governance in Antarctica, the deep seabed, and outer space. During his PhD, he received a doctoral fellowship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) and the Marcel and Annie Adams Doctoral Fellowship in International Studies.
Philippe also has a strong interest in social science methodology, particularly mixed methods. He has particular expertise in inferential network analysis. He teaches or has taught courses on global governance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, has supervised a master’s essay, and taught network analysis at VU Amsterdam.
His work has appeared in Regulation & Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Earth System Governance, and the International Journal of the Commons.