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Professor Elizabeth Robinson is currently on research leave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, as its Director, in September 2021. Elizabeth is also the theme lead for the Building Sustainable Societies theme<\/a> at the Global School of Sustainability at LSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth is an environmental economist working primarily on climate change and health, with a focus on food security and undernutrition, heat and worker rights, and the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions, protect the environment, and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities. From 2004-09 she was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, sub-Saharan Africa. She was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years; and in 2019-20, Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health, and Environment. From 2016-2024, she was Working Group 1 lead for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, that addresses climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability. She is currently chair of the Economics Advisory Group for the Climate Change Committee’s fourth climate change risk assessment, CCRA4.
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Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth has previously worked at University of Reading, Boston Consulting Group, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Resources Institute, and Oxford University. She has a first-class degree in Engineering, Economics, and Management from Oxford University, and a PhD from Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • The design of environmental policy instruments<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Climate change and health<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Climate change and food security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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