Dr Frédéric Basso

Dr Frédéric Basso is Associate Professor of Economic Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, and Research Officer and Advisory Board Member of the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics.

His research is driven by an interdisciplinary approach to the real world inspired by his academic backgrounds as full fellow and alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan, France), namely European Law (LLM), Political Economy (MSc, Agrégation), Organisational Studies (MSc), Consumer Psychology (PhD), and an academic training in brain imaging data analysis. He was visiting scholar at the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge University, UK) in 2022-2023, and the IAE Clermont Auvergne (Université Clermont Auvergne, France) in 2024. He is currently a member of the inaugural Editorial Board of LSE Press, a fully open access publishing house. He is also the programme director of the MSc Societal and Environmental Psychology and member of the Post-Growth Transformation Lab at LSE. They both aim to develop theoretical and practical solutions to help implement and promote more sustainable practices and live well within planetary boundaries.

Fred is deeply committed to ethical, societal and policy-making issues (Planetary Health and Public Policy) and, as illustrated by his 2024 book Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing – An Embodied Cognition Approach to Economic Life (Palgrave Macmillan) co-authored with Professor Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, his academic work aims to apply, improve and extend the literature on embodiment in order to promote a greater understanding of economic life and encourage transformative social and behavioural change that will enable us to flourish within planetary boundaries and in harmony with other living beings and Earth’s life-supporting systems. To date, three main dimensions of Fred’s research encompass these aspects: 1) planetary and public health issues, 2) post-growth production-consumption systems, and 3) the development of utopian thinking and practices (transformative social and behavioural change).

Pronouns: He/Him

Awards

• Multiple LSE Excellence in Education Awards and Teaching Prizes (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024)
• Full Fellowship, French Ministry for Research (PhD)
• Full Fellowship, Ecole Normale Supérieure (LLM and MSc)

Expertise

Consumer Psychology, Economic Psychology, Embodiment, Planetary Health, Post-Growth, Public Policy