Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health. His research focuses on global political economy, inequality, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020).

Jason has made scientific contributions to several fields, including ecological economics and international development. In ecological economics, he is one of the world’s most prominent scholars of post-growth transition and has contributed substantially to our understanding of how countries can achieve rapid decarbonization while also improving social outcomes. In the field of international development, he has advanced understanding of trends and causes of global poverty and inequality, and has conducted groundbreaking research on the dynamics of unequal exchange that drain the global South of resources and perpetuate underdevelopment, while also exploring how these problems can be overcome. He currently holds an ERC Synergy Grant (titled REAL: A Post-Growth Deal).