Prof. Agni Kalfagianni specializes in the effectiveness, legitimacy, and ethical and justice considerations of private and transnational forms of governance in the sustainability domain.

Agni sits in the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance project (earthsystemgovernance.org), and had the rotating co-chair role for the period 2019-2022. She is co-founder of the international Planetary Justice Taskforce, an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on questions of justice in the context of profound transformations of the earth system. Agni is (co)Editor-in-Chief of the Global Environmental Governance book series by Routledge, Editor-in-Chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and Associate Editor of the Earth System Governance journal.

She is currently leading the BEYOND GIVING project, on philanthropic foundations and global justice in sustainability governance, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).