FG
FRANÇOIS GEMENNE
HEC Paris
Professeur
Biography
A specialist in environmental geopolitics and migration issues, François Gemenne is a professor at HEC Paris, where he directs the Master's program in Sustainability and Social Innovation. He is also a qualified researcher at the FNRS at the University of Liège (Belgium), where he directs the Hugo Observatory. He was the lead author of the IPCC's 6th report and also teaches climate policy and international migration at several universities, including Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne. He is also co-director (with Julia Tasse) of the Defense and Climate Observatory of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, based at IRIS. Finally, he chairs the Alliance for Road Decarbonization, a large consortium of around 100 companies and local authorities working to decarbonize road transport.
His research focuses primarily on international climate and migration governance. In particular, he has done extensive work on population displacement linked to environmental degradation, climate change adaptation policies, and asylum and immigration policies.
He is also involved in numerous associations: in particular, he is Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme (FNH), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Observatoire de la Finance durable, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NGO Climate Voices, which seeks to connect young people from the North and South around climate issues. In addition, he is director of the “Earth Policies” section at Presses de Sciences Po. He is also a radio commentator on “Zéro Émission” on France Info every Saturday and “Le Parti Pris” on La Première (Belgium) every Thursday.
He has coordinated several major European research projects: MAGYC, which focused on migration governance and the asylum crisis, and HABITABLE, which focused on climate change-related migration. He also coordinated the DEVAST project, one of the first international projects dedicated to studying the political and social consequences of the Fukushima disaster. In addition, he has participated in numerous international research projects on these issues, including the EACH-FOR, HELIX, EDGE, MISTY, and MECLEP projects, for which he was the scientific coordinator.
In 2015, he received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue research at Princeton University. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Buenos Aires and Bratislava, and has conducted research at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, the University of the South Pacific in Suva (Fiji), and the Australian National University in Canberra.
He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Liège, Belgium (double degree). He also holds a Master's degree in Development, Environment and Societies from the University of Louvain, and a Master's degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics, where he also taught. Between 2008 and 2010, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Axa Fund for Research. He has published his work in numerous journals, including Science and Global Environmental Change, and is the author of several books, including L'écologie n'est pas un consensus (Fayard 2022), On a tous un ami noir (Fayard 2020), Géopolitique du climat (Armand Colin, 2009 and 2015), as well as two atlases: an Atlas des Migrations Environnementales with D. Ionesco and D. Mokhnacheva (Presses de Sciences Po and Routledge 2016) and an Atlas de l'Anthropocène, with A. Rankovic and the Sciences Po Cartography Workshop (Presses de Sciences Po 2019).
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