A Fulbright Research Chair at UC Berkeley[1] and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,[2] 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.
Working on the environment-development-security nexus, he is the (co)author of about one hundred refereed articles and several books,[5] including on conflict diamonds,[6] corruption in armed conflicts,[7] environmental defenders,[8] extractive industries,[9] fish crimes,[10] fossil fuel phase-out initiatives[11] (e.g. fossil fuel cuts database with Nicolas Gaulin),[12] and the political economy of natural disasters and armed conflicts.
[16] His academic research in published in journals such as African Affairs, Annals of the AAG, Antipode, Climate Policy, Geopolitics, Global Environmental Change, Political Geography, Review of International Political Economy, and Science Advances.
[17] Some of his research also appeared in AP, CBC,[18] CCTV, Christian Science Monitor,[19] The Globe and Mail, Die Zeit,[20] The Guardian,[21] Financial Times,[22] and The Washington Post.
[23] He regularly writes for Policy Options[24] and The Conversation,[25] and collaborates with international and non-governmental organizations.