Professor of Political Ecology, Lancaster University, UK and Principal Research Fellow, Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia. Director of the Office of Environmental Programs at the University of Melbourne, 2008-2012, and editor of the open access Journal of Political Ecology since 2003. He has conducted research on rural development and agrarian change in Burkina Faso, Niger, and East Timor since 1992, and currently on the impacts of mining for Indigenous communities in New Caledonia. Publications and further information: www.simonbatterbury.net.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2801-7483