Ben is a political economist researching mining, energy, and labour in the context of green transitions, with a regional focus on Africa. Prior to joining the University of Bath in 2020, he held academic posts at the International Institute of Social Studies and the London School of Economics. Currently, alongside his involvement in African Extractivism and the Green Transition, he holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to study labour dynamics in Burundi and Rwanda’s emerging solar industries, and is part of a research consortium exploring the entanglements of wealth and value in the global lithium-ion battery chain. He’s a member of the Editorial Working Group for the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), and an affiliated member of the Centre of Mining Research at the Catholic University of Bukavu, DR Congo.