Philippe Le Billon

Philippe Le Billon
Alma materOxford University University Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne
AwardsFulbright Research Chair, UC Berkeley; IAS Scholar, Princeton; International Geneva Award
Scientific career
Fieldspolitical ecology, development studies, geopolitics

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 and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, 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. He earned an MBA at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining UBC he collaborated with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).