Eric Lambin

Eric Lambin, a geographer and environmental scientist, divides his time between the UCLouvain (Belgium) and Stanford University, were he occupies the Ishiyama Provostial Professorship at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Woods Institute for the Environment. His research tries to better understand causes and impacts of land use changes in different parts of the world. He was Chair of the international scientific project Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) from 1999 to 2005. He was awarded the 2009 Francqui Prize, the 2014 Volvo Environment Prize, and the 2019 Blue Planet Prize. He is International Fellow at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and member of four Academies of Science in Europe. Since 2021, he is also member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission.

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Earth System Science
• Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
• Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Administrative Appointments

• George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2002 - 2003)
• Professor, University of Louvain, Belgium (1995 - Present)
• Expert, Joint Research Center (Ispra, Italy), European Commission, European Commission (1993 - 1995)
• Assistant professor, Boston University (1991 - 1993)

Honors & Awards

• Member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, European Commission (2021)
• Blue Planet Prize, Asahi Glass Foundation, Japan (2019)
• Beijer Fellow, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)
• Honorary degree “Doctor rerum naturalium honoris causa”, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2016)
• Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters (2014)

All Honors & Awards (13)

• Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
• Academic Advisory Council of Voluntary Sustainability Standards, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (2021 - Present)
• Advisory Board, Chapter Zero Brussels - Climate Governance Initiative, World Economic Forum (2021 - Present)
• Advisory Board, Landscape Ecology (2019 - Present)
• International Science Advisory Council, Stockholm Resilience Centre (2019 - Present)
• Review Editor, Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (2017 - 2018)
• All Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations (17)

Program Affiliations

• Center for East Asian Studies

Professional Education

• PhD, University of Louvain, Belgium, Sciences, Geography (1988)
• M.S., University of Louvain, Belgium, Geography (1985)
• B.A., University of Louvain, Belgium, Philosophy (1985)