Lennart Olsson
Professor of Geography at Lund University
Lennart, a professor of Geography at Lund University, was the founding Director of LUCSUS 2000-17. His current research focuses on the politics of climate change in the context of poverty, food insecurity, and ill-health in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. He was Coordinating Lead Author for the chapter on Livelihoods and Poverty in IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report 2011-14 and for the chapter on Land Degradation in the special IPCC report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), 2017-19.