Jan Selby
Honorary Professor
Profile
Biography
Jan Selby is Professor of International Politics and Climate Change at the University of Leeds, as well as Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of York.
Jan has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lancaster, and previously worked at Lancaster (2000-02), Aberystwyth (2002-04), Sussex (2005-20) and Sheffield (2020-23).
Jan’s research focuses on the political causes of, and responses to, climate and other environmental changes, though he has also worked periodically on themes in International Relations theory; conflict, peacebuilding and development; and Middle East politics.
His most recent book is Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge University Press 2022, co-authored with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann).
