Short biography
Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney
Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the
Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health. His research focuses on global political economy, inequality, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books:
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020).
