Graeme has broad interests in comparative environmental politics and global environmental governance. He is co-author (with Benjamin Cashore and Deanna Newsom) of Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-state Authority (Yale University Press, 2004), which won the 2005 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book in the field of international environmental policy and politics. His solo-authored book, Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification (Yale University Press, 2014), received an honorable mention for the 2016 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award and was the co-winner of the 2016 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize from the American Political Science Association for the best book on environmental politics and policy.

Graeme Auld is a Research Partner in the Greening Growth Partnership project.