Elizabeth Robinson
United Kingdom
Expertise:
Climate Change & Environment
Business & Industry
Education
Director
Elizabeth Robinson joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment as its director in September 2021. She is an environmental economist with more than 30 years of research experience, particularly in lower-income countries, including six years living in Tanzania and Ghana. Her research addresses the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions, protect the environment and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities. Her recent focus includes climate change and systemic risk, and tracking the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and health, particularly around food security and food systems.
From 2004 to 2009, she was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, sub-Saharan Africa and a member of the global and sub-Saharan Africa design teams. She was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years. In 2019–20, she served as a specialist advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health and Environment. She leads Working Group 1 for The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, an organization that addresses climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability.
Before joining the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2021, Robinson worked at the University of Reading for 10 years. She also has worked at the Boston Consulting Group, the World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Resources Institute and the University of Oxford as a tutorial fellow in economics. She has a degree in engineering, economics and management from Oxford University, and a PhD in applied economics from Stanford University.