Lauren Grant

Researcher, Founding Executive Director of Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC)

Lauren Grant is a researcher, advocate, and educator committed to advancing environmental and climate mobility justice. Grounded in decolonial, feminist, and rights-based approaches, her work interrogates how climate-related loss, displacement, and immobility are produced through racial capitalist and colonial political economies, and seeks to disrupt the systemic, genocidal, and epistemic forms of violence embedded within them. Lauren is the Founding Executive Director of Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC), and the Founder, Academic Director of Curriculum, Critical Pedagogy, and Lead Instructor of the International School on Climate Mobilities (ISCM). She is Climate Mobility Advisor to the Africa Centre for Sustainable and Inclusive Development (Africa CSID) and sits on advisory committees for the UN Platform on Disaster Displacement and Earth Refuge.
Lauren holds an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London and MA in Human Rights from Central European University. She completed a BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies through studies at the University of British Columbia, Lancaster University, and Oregon State University, and holds an International Human Rights Defender Certificate in Foundations of International Law. Lauren is a TEDx speaker: Why care about climate migrants in an era of loss and damage.