C-PREE Bradford Seminar: Green Industrial Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Date & Time Apr 14 2025 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location Wallace Hall
300
Topics Climate Change, Environment, Energy Globalization, Foreign Policy, Trade International Development Science, Technology, Innovation
Department Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) High Meadows Environmental Institute
Speaker(s)
Amir Lebdioui
Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required
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Amir Lebdioui is the director of the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the Oxford Department of International Development. Before joining Oxford, Amir was based at SOAS, University of London, and the London School of Economics (LSE).

His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversification, natural resource management, green economic transformation and biodiversity-based innovation models. He is the author of Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Latin American trade in the age of climate change: impact, opportunities, and policy options (LSE, 2022)

Amir also regularly advises governments, international institutions (including the IEA, IRENA, World Bank, UNDP, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Latin American development Bank-CAF) and think tanks on green industrial policy. He was appointed by the Brazilian presidency to the independent group of experts of the G20 climate task force, serves on the advisory council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), and is non-resident fellow at the Climate and Community Project and at the Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. 

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The David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series is coordinated by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). 

This in-person event is open to the public. Princeton University community members do not need to RSVP. Members of the general public should RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu and will be accommodated as space allows.

This seminar will be livestreamed at http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/ and videos of the recordings are posted on C-PREE's YouTube channel within a week or two after the event.

 

Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.