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Professor Elizabeth JZ Robinson, a leading environmental economist, works on climate change and health, food security and undernutrition, and heat and worker rights. She is the Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (on sabbatical until September 2026). She is also a Professor of Environmental Economics at Department of Geography and Environment. In 2025, Professor Robinson was the Acting Dean of the LSE’s Global School of Sustainability which launched in 2025.

From 2004-2009 Robinson was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, sub-Saharan Africa; from 2012-2017 she was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel; 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; and 2019-2020, Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health, and Environment. In 2023 she was appointed chair of the Economics Advisory Group for the Climate Change Committee’s fourth climate change risk assessment, CCRA4; in 2024 she was appointed as a Global Advisory Council member for Resource Resolutions; and in 2025 Robinson was appointed as a Lead Author for Working Group III, Chapter 4 “Sustainable development and mitigation” of the upcoming Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Early Life and Education

Robinson studied Engineering, Economics, and Management at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, graduating with first-class honours. She was awarded the Maurice Lubbock Prize for best overall student in the degree in 1990; the Deloitte Prize for Economics, EEM (shared); and the Institute of Production Engineers/ Unipart Industries Prize, EEM (1990). She was awarded an Open Scholarship (demyship), to study at Magdalen College, Oxford (1986-90) and a National Engineering Scholarship (1986-90). While at Oxford she was Varsity Gymnastics (Captain); Varsity Lightweight Rowing; and Varsity Athletics. In 1997 she was awarded a PhD in Applied Economics at Stanford University, on a full scholarship. She was awarded the American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Honourable Mention (second best PhD in the US, Agricultural Economics, 1997); and was a Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant.

Career

Robinson began her career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and went on to work with the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich. She has held academic positions at the University of Oxford as a Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh’s College and University Lecturer in the Department of Economics; and at the University of Reading, where she was Professor of Environmental Economics and Head of Department. In September 2021, she became Director of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, and Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Geography and Environment. In 2024, she was appointed for one year (until September 2025) as Acting Dean of LSE’s Global School of Sustainability, a new initiative which was established in January 2025.

Research interest

Robinson’s main research focus is the health co-benefits of tackling climate change, with a focus on extreme heat and worker health and worker rights, and the links between climate change, food security and nutrition, particularly in lower-income countries. She has been collaborating with the Environment for Development Initiative since 2005 where much of her research addressed resource dependent livelihoods, often in the context of terrestrial and marine protected areas.

Policy and public service

• Member of Global Advisory Council of Resource Resolutions
• Chair of the Advisory Group on the Economics of Climate Risk and Adaptation for CCRA4 for the Climate Change Committee (2023-)
• Wellcome Trust funded Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2016-2023)
• Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and the Environment (2019-2020)
• UK Economic Advisory Panel, DEFRA (2012-2017)
• Coordinating Lead Author for sub-Saharan Africa; Member of global and sub-Saharan Africa design teams; Co-author of synthesis report for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (2004-2009)
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Lead Author, Biodiversity (protected areas) (2001-2004)

Selected publications

1. Howarth, C. and Robinson, E.J.Z., 2024. Effective climate action must integrate climate adaptation and mitigation. Nature Climate Change, pp.1-2.
2. Dasgupta, S. and Robinson, E.J.Z., 2024. Climate, weather, and child health: quantifying health co-benefits. Environmental Research Letters, 19(8), p.084001.
3. Robinson, E.J.Z., 2023. Climate friendly public health policies make economic sense. bmj, 383.
4. De Maria, M., Robinson, E.J.Z and Zanello, G., 2023. Fair compensation in large-scale land acquisitions: Fair or fail?. World Development, 170, p.106338.
5. Dasgupta, S. and Robinson, E.J.Z., 2023. Climate, weather and child health in Burkina Faso. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 67(4), pp.576-602.
6. Dasgupta, S. and Robinson, E.J.Z, 2022. Attributing changes in food insecurity to a changing climate. Scientific Reports 12(1). 1-11
7. Albers, H.J., Preonas, L., Capitán, T., Robinson, E.J.Z. and Madrigal-Ballestero, R., 2020. Optimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas. Environmental and Resource Economics, 77(1), pp.229-269.
8. McNamara, J., Robinson, E.J.Z., Abernethy, K., Iponga, D.M., Sackey, H.N., Wright, J.H. and Milner-Gulland, E.J., 2020. COVID-19, systemic crisis, and possible implications for the wild meat trade in Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental and Resource Economics, 76(4), pp.1045-1066.
9. Robinson, E.J.Z. 2016. Resource-dependent livelihoods and the natural resource base, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 8(1), pp281-301.
10. Robinson, E.J.Z.; Albers, H. J.; Lokina, R.; Ngeleza, G. 2014. Insiders, outsiders, and the role of local enforcement in forest management: An example from Tanzania, Ecological Economics, 107: 242-248.
11. Robinson, E.J.Z.; Albers, H. J.; and Williams, J. C. 2011. “Sizing reserves within a landscape: The roles of villagers' reactions and the ecological-socioeconomic setting,” Land Economics 87(2): 233-249.
12. Robinson, E.J.Z.; Albers, H. J.; and Williams, J. C. 2008. “Spatial and temporal modelling of community non-timber forest extraction”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 56: 234-245.