Philippe Le Billon
Oxford University University Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne
Fulbright Research Chair, UC Berkeley; IAS Scholar, Princeton; International Geneva Award
political ecology, development studies, geopolitics
Contributions[edit]
Working on the environment-development-security nexus, he is the (co)author of about one hundred refereed articles and several books,[5] including on conflict diamonds,[6] corruption in armed conflicts,[7] environmental defenders,[8] extractive industries,[9] fish crimes,[10] fossil fuel phase-out initiatives[11] (e.g. fossil fuel cuts database with Nicolas Gaulin),[12] and the political economy of natural disasters and armed conflicts.[13]
Le Billon served on the editorial board of Political Geography and Environment and Security,[14] the scientific advisory board of Swisspeace,[15] and the founding board of Environmental Peacebuilding Association.[16] His academic research in published in journals such as African Affairs, Annals of the AAG, Antipode, Climate Policy, Geopolitics, Global Environmental Change, Political Geography, Review of International Political Economy, and Science Advances.[17] Some of his research also appeared in AP, CBC,[18] CCTV, Christian Science Monitor,[19] The Globe and Mail, Die Zeit,[20] The Guardian,[21] Financial Times,[22] and The Washington Post.[23] He regularly writes for Policy Options[24] and The Conversation,[25] and collaborates with international and non-governmental organizations.[26]