Philippe Le Billon

Philippe Le Billon is a French scholar known for his work on political ecology and the political economy of war. He served with the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and as a diplomat with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before research appointments at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He has carried out fieldwork in Angola, Cambodia, Colombia, Iraq, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and the former Yugoslavia, and has consulted for UN agencies and the World Bank. He is Full Professor at the University of British Columbia, and holds a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford. He has held visiting appointments as a Fulbright Research Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, a Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris.