Paul Rink
Board Member
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan in 2012, Paul Rink spent a year and half teaching soil science and environmental science to Singaporean students at Ngee Ann Polytechnic as a Princeton in Asia Fellow. They then extended their fellowship for an additional year, working on policy advocacy at the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Immediately after earning their Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and their Master of Environmental Management degree from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2019, they spent a brief stint in Australia working as a forest restoration consultant for Conservation International. Following this consultancy position, Paul researched the impact of business interests on international environmental law as a Fox Fellow in Mexico City before starting a position as a Global Staff Attorney at Our Children’s Trust where they co-implemented a successful campaign to enshrine 100% renewable energy targets in Florida law; drafted comments responding to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s draft Technical Support Document on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases; and co-developed third-party intervention filings before multiple non-U.S. tribunals, including the Mexican Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit and the European Court of Human Rights. Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Paul has written academic articles ranging from the household economic benefits of rainwater harvesting systems to a comparative analysis of the forestry policies in Indonesia and Brazil.