Erin Graham is an associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on international organizations, law, and climate finance. She published Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations with Oxford University Press in 2023.
Her research has been published in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and other outlets. Her current work focuses on how climate funding from multilateral organizations is being used to de-risk private capital investment. Graham has served as a consultant to organizations on resource mobilization and funding modalities, including the CGIAR and USAID.
Before joining Notre Dame, Graham was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House and a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. She received her PhD in political science from The Ohio State University.