Philippe Le Billon

Philippe Le Billon is a geographer, author and Professor at the University of British Columbia,[1] and a researcher at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.[2] He earned an MBA at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and a doctorate at the University of Oxford.[1] He has authored or co-authored several books on the economy and politics of war, and the role of corruption in war.[3]

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.
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References
  1. "Continuing Faculty", Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  2. Chan, Lorraine. (2007). "A Raw Deal", UBC Reports, 53:7. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  3. "Philippe Le Billon", Department of Geography, University of British Columbia. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
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