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Philippe Le Billon is a researcher known for his work in political ecology and on the political economy of war. A Fulbright Research Chair at UC Berkeley[1] and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,[2] Le Billon is a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.[3] He earned an MBA at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and a doctorate at the University of Oxford.[4] Prior to joining UBC he collaborated with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
Philippe Le Billon | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Oxford University University Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne |
| Awards | Fulbright Research Chair, UC Berkeley; IAS Scholar, Princeton; International Geneva Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | political ecology, development studies, geopolitics |
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]
- Le Billon, Philippe (2000). Political Economy of War: What Relief Agencies Need to Know. Overseas Development Institute.
- Le Billon, Philippe (2001). The Political Ecology of War. Political Geography 20(5): 561–584.
- Le Billon, Philippe (2005). Geopolitics of Resource Wars: Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714684970.
- Le Billon, Philippe (2013). Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources. London, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190235673.
- Le Billon, Philippe; Bridge, Gavin (2017). Oil (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-509-51173-0.
- Le Billon, Philippe; Williams, Aled (2017). Corruption, Natural Resources and Development. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1785361197.
- Le Billon, Philippe; Menton Mary (2021). Environmental Defenders. Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367649647
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