Philippe Le Billon

Philippe Le Billon is a geographer, author and Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a researcher at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. He earned an MBA at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. He has authored or co-authored several books on the economy and politics of war, and the role of corruption in war.

Publications

• Le Billon, P. (2012). Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources. London, New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press.
• Bridge, G; Le Billon, P. (2012). Oil, Cambridge: Polity Press
• Le Billon, P. (ed),(2005), Geopolitics of Resource Wars: Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence. London: Frank Cass.