François Gemenne
François Gemenne is the Director of the Hugo Observatory, a research centre dedicated to the study of environmental migration at the University of Liège (Belgium), where he is a FNRS senior research associate. He is also a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, where he taught the class “Environment and Migration” with Caroline Zickgraf at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). He has been appointed as lead author of the forthcoming 6th IPCC Assessment Report (Working group 2, Chapter 8 on Poverty, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development). He has been involved in a large number of international research projects on migration and environmental issues, including EACH-FOR, HELIX, DEVAST and MECLEP, for which he was the global research coordinator. Besides his key role in the conception of the EDGE project, he has also led ULg in its current ongoing projects, including MIGRADAPT, MISTY and MAGYC. In 2015, he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to pursue research at Princeton University. He holds a joint doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liège (Belgium). He also holds a Master’s in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, as well as a Master of Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics.
