Elizabeth Robinson

Professor Elizabeth Robinson is Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. She is an environmental economist with over twenty-five years’ experience, including six while living in Tanzania and Ghana, addressing the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions, protect the environment, and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities, particularly in lower-income countries. She focuses on climate change and systemic risk; and tracking the health co-benefits of tackling climate change, oriented particularly around food security and food systems, and heat and workers. She was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years; and in 2019-20, Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health, and Environment. From 2016-2024 she was working group one lead for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change; and from 2023-2026 Chair of the Advisory Group on the Economics of Climate Risk and Adaptation for CCRA4 for the UK's Climate Change Committee. She is currently a member of the Global Advisory Council for Resource Resolutions.
Elizabeth previously worked at the University of Reading, the Boston Consulting Group, the World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Resources Institute, and the University of Oxford as a Lecturer in the Economic Department and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's College. She has a first class degree in Engineering, Economics, and Management from Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University.