Dr. Eric Lambin

Biography

Eric Lambin is a geographer and environmental scientist who divides his time between UCLouvain in Belgium and Stanford University, where he occupies the George Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professorship at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Woods Institute for the Environment. His research aims to understand the causes and impacts of land use changes in various parts of the world. He chaired the international scientific project on Land Use Land Cover Change (LUCC) from 1999 to 2005. Lambin has received numerous accolades for his work, including the 2009 Francqui Prize, the 2014 Volvo Environment Prize, and the 2019 Blue Planet Prize. He is an International Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and belongs to four Academies of Science in Europe. In 2021, he became a member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission. Lambin is recognized for his contributions to understanding land use changes, particularly in areas facing environmental transformation. His research takes a comprehensive approach, incorporating both natural and social sciences to analyze the dynamics of land systems worldwide, with significant findings regarding tropical deforestation and sustainable land use governance.

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