Food (in)security Lab - Project team overview
Professor Elizabeth Robinson is Acting Dean of the London School of Economics’ Global School of Sustainability, seconded from her role as Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Elizabeth received her PhD in applied economics from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, and for almost three decades since then, she has worked at the interface of climate, food and nutrition, and the natural resource base. She is currently Chair of the Advisory Group on the Economics of Climate Risk and Adaptation for CCRA4 for the UK’s Climate Change Committee. She also served on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years; from 2004-09 she was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, sub-Saharan Africa; from 2016-2024 working group one lead for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change; and was Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health, and Environment. Elizabeth has previously worked at the University of Reading, the Boston Consulting Group, the World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Resources Institute, and the University of Oxford as a Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College. She also has a first-class degree in Engineering, Economics, and Management from Oxford University.
Dr. Shouro Dasgupta is an Environmental Economist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute, LSE. Shouro received his PhD from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice focusing on climate change impacts on agriculture and health outcomes. His research focuses on advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change on the labour force, food security, health, and inequality. Shouro co-leads the food insecurity indicator for Lancet Countdown Global, Europe, Latin America, and SIDS reports with Professor Robinson. He led the health risk assessment for the first European Climate Risk Assessment with the aim of supporting EU climate policy development. Shouro also leads the ISIMIP Labour sector and is of one the 78 experts convened by UNFCCC to assist the UAE-Belém programme to develop indicators for measuring progress towards Global Goal on Adaptation. He has previously worked for the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Dr. Lucy Kanya is a Health Economist at the London School of London School of Economics’ (LSE) Global School of Sustainability, seconded from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Her PhD in applied health economics from Brunel University London focussed on the application of contingent valuation methods in measuring health outcomes. Her MSc in Health Economics from the LSE and MPH from the University of Nairobi, Kenya assessed the use of social financing to expand access to health care services for vulnerable population groups in East Africa. Lucy joined GSoS from LSE’s Department of Health Policy where she also served as one of the LSE Health deputy centre directors. She supported establishment of the African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP), a collaborative partnership fostering cross-country learning to promote knowledge exchange and evidence-informed policymaking in Sub Saharan Africa. Her work focusses on the use of implementation science to support governments in the introduction and scale up of evidence-informed interventions aimed at addressing malnutrition in Sub Saharan Africa. She is currently leading and/or supporting research projects aimed at introducing Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation (MMS) among pregnant women in several African countries.
Lei (Alice) Bian is a Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Global School of Sustainability, seconded from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Alice received her Master of Food and Resource Economics from the University of British Columbia, and an MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy from SOAS, University of London. Through equitable partnerships with communities, policymakers, researchers and NGOs, Alice is closely engaged in international collaborative research on financing the blue economy to scale up investments to optimise the health co-benefits of sustainable mangrove livelihoods, with a particular focus on improved marine food security and health in lower-income countries. Alice is Principal Investigator for a British Academy ODA Challenge-Oriented research project on Tackling climate change through health-oriented policy interventions in coastal marinescapes in the Philippines, supported under the UK Government’s International Science Partnerships Fund. Alice previously worked at the Clean Air Asia, World Health Organization and Asian Development Bank.
