Dr Matthew Bunce
Dr Bunce’s professional and academic work over 30 years has included global insurance, foreign news reporting, global risk advisory and response services, social and natural science academia, international development consultancy, and public/international sector contracting for humanitarian, disaster and conflict crises. Beyond his residency in Africa and its islands he has worked bilingually across the continent, on converging environmental, development and conflict issues. As an Africa and marine affairs specialist his practice-focused interests include:
- Human/environmental security and peace-building
- Social-ecological change and leveraging traditional knowledge
- Marine and coastal policy in a changing world
A former roster consultant for the UK’s Stabilisation Unit, Matthew is currently an Associate of King’s College London’s Environment and Security Research Group, with earlier attachments to Imperial College, Bristol University, and the University of East Anglia. He graduated from Plymouth University (BA Hons, PhD) with an Interdisciplinary UK doctoral scholarship (ESRC-NERC), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc. Distinction). His Africa research was cited in several IPCC chapters (AR5) and he reviews for open-access publications such as Ecology and Society. A Fellow of the UK’s Marine Biological Society, he writes and serves on its editorial board for a global communication magazine.
