Pauline Destrée is a Lecturer in Business Ethics and Sustainability. Her research looks at the social and political aspects of energy and sustainability in West Africa. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research on oil extraction, energy politics and electricity access in Ghana. Pauline teaches Business Ethics & Sustainability to the undergraduate programmes at King's Business School.

Her key areas of expertise and research interests are:

• Climate change, environmental politics and energy justice;
• Energy transitions, decarbonization and net zero;
• Resource extraction and development;
• Social and environmental sustainability;
• Corporate and applied ethnography

Her research has been funded by the AHRC, the ERC and the British Academy, and published in Critique of Anthropology, JRAI (The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), and Focaal. Pauline is the Secretary of the Energy Anthropology Network at EASA (EAN) and the leader of the EASA Apply Club in Sustainability. She is affiliated with the Centre for Energy Ethics at the University of St Andrews and the Petrocultures Research Group.

Prior to working at King’s, Pauline taught environmental anthropology and sustainability at Durham University, and was previously a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from UCL and a MSc in Visual, Material & Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Currently accepting new PhD students.