prof.dr. L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini

Biography

Lorenzo Pellegrini, PhD is a Professor of Economics of Environment and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and an Adjunct Professor at the University San Francisco of Quito, Ecuador. He received his PhD from the VU University of Amsterdam.

His research interests include the socio-environmental impact of extractive industries, environmental justice, policies to keep fossil fuels in the ground, impact evaluation, institutions and corruption. Recent publications have appeared in Nature Communications, Global Environmental Politics, Geoforum, Political Geography, The Extractive Industries and Society, and Ecological Economics. Countries of research experience include Bhutan, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Italy, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Lorenzo has also led a number of participatory and action-oriented research projects in the Global South. He teaches courses on research methodology, development economics, development theory, sustainable development, and ecological economics. 

The FULL CV is available HERE (updated June 2024)

International Institute of Social Studies

Full professor | Academic staff unit
Email
pellegrini@iss.nl

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Work

  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (8 June 2023) - Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

  • Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2022) - Global Environmental Politics (Journal) (Editor)
    Activity: Editorial work Academic
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2019) - Community-Based Environmental Monitoring in The Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon: Technologies as Instruments in the Struggle for Environmental Justice (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print) (Journal) (Editor)
    Activity: Publication Peer-review Academic
  • Bram Buscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Wendy Harcourt (2012) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November) (Participant)
    Activity: Attending an event Professional
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - On the left turn in Latin America and alternative development models (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Lorenzo Pellegrini (2011) - Political Economy of Extractive Industries Workshop (Participant)
    Activity: Attending an event Popular

COVA Contro, NGO

Start date approval
May 2023
End date approval
May 2026
Place
ITALY

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Start date approval
May 2023
End date approval
May 2026
Place
QUITO, ECUADOR

News regarding prof.dr. L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini

"We want to help invent an economy in the Amazon that is not based on oil"

Stopping deforestation and standing up for local communities in the Amazon is the aim of the 'All Eyes on the Amazon' project.
Drones being inspected by inhabitants of the Amazon

Imagining the end of fossil capitalism

In his inaugural lecture on 14 September 2022, Professor Lorenzo Pellegrini highlighted the relevance of the supply of fossil fuels in the climate debate
Inaugural lecture Lorenzo Pellegrini - holding up tee-shirt

Keep those fossil fuels under the soil

Professor Portraits - On 14 September, Lorenzo Pellegrini will hold his inaugural lecture. In this interview, he gives a glimpse of what the audience can expect.
Lorenzo Pellegrini

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