IECS Team
Imre Szeman
Director
Imre Szeman is Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group...
Imre Szeman is Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group, which explores the socio-cultural dimensions of energy use and its implications for energy transition and climate change, and the founder of the After Oil Collective. Szeman is author of On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (2019) and Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over Renewable Life (2024).