Aseem Prakash is Professor of Political Science, the Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Politics. He is the founding Editor Cambridge University Press Series in Business and Public Policy, the co-editor of Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Associate Editor of Business & Society. Professor Prakash's research focuses on environmental policy, climate governance, NGOs and nonprofits, and voluntary/private regulation. He also contributes to public scholarship via platforms such as The Conversation, Slate, The Washington Post, Huffpost, Regulatory Review, The Hill, and opendemocracy.

Professor Prakash is a member of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Environmental Change and Society and International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, University of Oxford. He was elected to the position of the Vice President of the International Studies Association for the period, 2015-2016. He is the recipient of International Studies Association's 2018 James N. Rosenau Award for "scholar who has made the most important contributions to globalization studies" and the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance's 2018 Regulatory Studies Development Award that recognizes a senior scholar who has made notable contributions to the field of regulatory governance." He serves on the Economic Development Commission of the city of his residence: Edmonds, Washington.