Dr Adam Simpson is founding convenor of the APSA Environmental Politics and Policy group and was previously president (2008-11) and secretary (2005-8) of the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia.
He is Lecturer in the International Relations program at the University of South Australia where he coordinates courses on IR and Environmental Politics. He is also a Key Researcher (Full Member) in the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA and an Associate at the Indo-Pacific Governance Research Centre (IPGRC) at the University of Adelaide where he was previously Associate Lecturer. Prior to academia he worked as an analyst for several US and British investment banks in the City of London. His research is mostly located in Thailand and Burma and is focused on environmental security, human rights and energy security in the South and green politics under authoritarian regimes. He has published in journals such as Third World Quarterly and Environmental Politics and his forthcoming book is entitled Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (Ashgate: Farnham).
