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).