Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice (formerly IDCE) at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is Co-director of the Center for the Study of Natural Resources Extraction and Society at Clark University (Extractives@Clark) and former director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.  Her research has explored the political ecology of natural gas in Bolivia and the implications of the gas economy for both indigenous peoples and regional societies, the dynamics of socio environmental conflict and mobilization linked to natural resource extraction and large-scale infrastructure investments, and the relationship between gender, environment and development, specifically how women gain access to and control over natural resources. Prior to her academic research she served as Representative to Peru for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), South American Regional Sub-Director for Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Latin America Program Coordinator for the Global Greengrants Fund (GGF).  She is co-author of Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas (OUP, 2018) and Evaluación y Alcance de la Industria Extractiva y la Infraestructura en Relación con la Deforestación: Amazonía (Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, 2019). Publications from her research have appeared in the Environmental Science and Policy, World Development, Iconos, Development and Change, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ecuador Debate, Umbrales, and the Journal of Latin American Geography among others.