As an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Greenwich and Co-Lead of the Centre for Society, Environment and Development, my research is fundamentally concerned with how governance systems can address entrenched inequalities, support diverse knowledge and value systems, and advance just and sustainable futures. My work is most closely associated with the contextual conditions of Inequality and Diversity and the research lens on Justice and Allocation. Across my career spanning ecological economics, water justice, Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems, biodiversity governance, and relational approaches to sustainability, I have worked to expose how global and local environmental governance systems reproduce structural inequalities, and how alternative epistemologies and community-led governance arrangements offer pathways toward more equitable outcomes. I bring extensive experience in collaborative, transdisciplinary, and intercultural research; leadership of large multi-country projects; and engagement with global policy communities (including the FAO’s Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, the Water Justice Hub, and Future Earth). I am committed to strengthening the ESG network by helping build bridges between academic research, Indigenous and local communities, artists, practitioners, and policy actors, all key partners for realising just transformations in the spirit of ESG’s mission.
