Peter Bille Larsen

RESEARCH & FACILITATION

Cracking sustainability challenges of our times require long-term critical research engagement recognizing the diversity and inequalities involved.

Informed by fieldwork in Latin America, Southeast Asia and the international policy level, my work explores the intersections and frontiers

of social equity and environmental sustainability.

About Me

Peter Bille Larsen works on conservation and social justice issues at both local and global levels. He combines academic research and teaching with hands-on field and policy engagement. He has extensive experience with Latin America, Asia, Africa and global level institutions.

Currently Senior Lecturer at The Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Institute (GEDT) of the University of Geneva and the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich, emerging work addresses environmental civil society spaces, heritage and transboundary conservation. Recent books include Post-frontier resource governance (Palgrave, 2015), Derechos indígenas, gobernanza ambiental y recursos en la Amazonía peruana (IEP, 2017), The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs (Palgrave 2018), World Heritage and Human Rights (Routledge, 2018) and World Heritage and Sustainable Development (Routledge, 2018).

Education

2007- 2012

Ph.D. | EHESS & The Graduate Inst.

Social Anthropology & Development Studies

2005

D.E.A. | University of Geneva

Public Policy & Management

1998

M.A. | University of Copenhagen

Social Anthropology

Ph.D. Anthropology & Development

Environmental Governance | Social Equity | Sustainability |

Linking Policy and Practice | Analysis and Facilitation.

The Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Hub | University of Geneva

Recent employment

2018 till present

Senior Lecturer and associate researcher, The Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Institute, University of Geneva

2013- 2018, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Luzern

2012 - 2013, Post Doc. Oxford Department of International Development. University of Oxford

2006 till present. Independent consultant.

Engagement

President of SEG/SSE Interface Commission

Member of Swiss National UNESCO Commission

Member of IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy & World Commission on Protected Areas

PHONE

+41 78 857 19 76

billelarsen@gmail.com