Georges Alexandre (Alex) Lenferna is a South African Fulbright Scholar and PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy. From February-September 2018 Alex will be away in Sydney working as an Endeavour Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales Practical Justice Initiative Climate Justice Research Stream. 

Alex's research takes a philosophically-grounded interdisciplinary approach to issues of climate change, global justice, poverty, and inequality. His MA thesis focused on climate justice and migration, and his PhD thesis is focusing on developing a moral case for rapidly but equitably ending the fossil fuel era. He has also done research into geoengineering, fossil fuel divestment, carbon taxes, climate reparations, global poverty, and the rights of nature. Alex regularly contributes to media and public scholarship. His writing, research, and public scholarship are freely available here. 

Previously, at UW, Alex has worked as: a research assistant for a National Science Foundation Project entitled Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice; a lecturer and teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department; a Research Assistant for the Program on Values in Society; a research associate at the UW's Program on Ocean Change; and as research assistant for Prof Stephen Gardiner. Additionally, Alex is a Graduate Student Department Representative for the Program on Climate Change, where he completed the Graduate Certificate in Climate Science. He is also a graduate fellow in the Center for Environmental Politics. 

Alex also volunteers in several climate justice advocacy roles. For more information about his advocacy please visit his personal website.