Philippe Le Billon is a professor with the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Oxford, and was a Fulbright Research Chair at UC Berkeley, a Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, a CARE Climate Leadership Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, and held positions at the Overseas Development Institute and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A political ecologist working on the linkages between environment, development and security, he is the author of Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources (also published by Hurst); co-author of Oil; and co-editor of Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory.
