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Dr. François Gemenne

HABITABLE lead
WP10, WP11 and WP12 lead
WP1 and WP9
University of Liège (The Hugo Observatory)

François Gemenne is a specialist of environmental geopolitics and migration governance, FNRS senior research associate and Director of the Hugo Observatory (University of Liège). He also co-heads the Observatory on Defence and Climate of the French Ministry of Defence. François holds a joint doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liège, a Master’s degree in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, and a Master of Research in Political Science from LSE. 

François is also a lead author for the IPCC (WG II, Chapter 8 on Poverty, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development). His work focuses, in particular, on populations displaced by environmental changes, including natural disasters, and policies of adaptation to climate change, as well as on asylum and migration policies. He has conducted field research in New Orleans after Katrina, in Japan after the Fukushima disaster, and Tuvalu, the Maldives and Mauritius, amongst others. He lectures on climate change and migration policies in different universities, including Sciences Po and Sorbonne University in Paris. 

François has been involved in a large number of international research projects including HELIX, MECLEP, EDGE, MISTY and MAGYC, where he acts as Principal Investigator. 

François is the Principal Investigator of the HABITABLE project and leads WP10, WP11 and WP12.

Work Package 1

Socio-Ecological Systems (SES), Climate Impacts and Tipping Points

Work Package 9

Stakeholder Engagement

Work Package 10

Communication, dissemination and exploitation of results

Work Package 11

Management and Coordination

Work Package 12

Ethics Requirements

HABITABLE aims to significantly advance our understanding of the current interlinkages between climate impacts and migration and displacement patterns, in order to better anticipate their future evolutions.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 869395. The content reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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