Robert Falkner

Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He serves as the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA programme, an alliance between LSE, NYU Stern School of Business and HEC Paris and one of the world’s leading global EMBA programmes, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2006-07 and Simone Veil Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2023.

Robert’s research focuses on international political economy, global environmental politics, and the role of business in international relations. He has published widely in these areas, including The Market in Global International Society (co-authored, Oxford University Press 2025), Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities (co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2022), and Environmentalism and Global International Society (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Robert’s research has been supported by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), European Commission, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Foundation and Stiftung Mercator, among others. Robert was a member of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission at LSE IDEAS, which published its final report in February 2021, laying out the principles that should underpin Britain’s future trade and investment policies and making ten recommendations for future action. He was an associate fellow of Chatham House from 1999 to 2020 and an associate editor of the European Journal of International Relations (2004-08).

Robert has extensive experience of executive-level speaking, consultancy and advisory work, for private and public sector organisations, including the Department for International Development (UK), Duke Corporate Education, the European Commission, the European Environment Agency, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), HEC Paris, Oxford Analytica, TRIUM Global EMBA and the World Economic Forum.