Dr Pedro Alarcón

Pedro Alarcón is a research fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town. Dr Alarcón has held visiting professorships at the University of Vienna and at several institutions in Ecuador. He has also undertaken postdoctoral research at universities in Germany, Peru and Colombia. His research lies at the crossroads of climate change, energy, and society. From a Political Economy perspective he explores the entanglements between nature, rent, and national states. Dr Alarcón studied energy sciences and environmental humanities at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the University of Oslo, and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. Regions/countries of interest: Southern Africa, Andean countries, the Philippines.