Dr. Emily Lydgate, expert in environmental law and international trade.

Bio

Emily Lydgate is a Reader (Senior Associate Professor) in Environmental Law and Deputy Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, a partnership between University of Sussex and Chatham House. Her research focuses on the relationship between environmental regulation and economic integration through trade.

Academic Positions

Deputy Director, UK Trade Policy Observatory
Management team, Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
Member, TaPP network

Non-academic Positions

Specialist Advisor to the EFRA Committee (UK House of Commons), January 2021-December 2022
Commissioner, UK Trade and Climate Commission
Advisory Board, Tulip Consulting
Member, Future British Standards coalition
Consulted at the United Nations Environment Programme’s Economics and Trade Branch

Current Funded Research Projects

Led on a report for the UK Committee on Climate Change, 'Trade Policies and Emissions Reduction: Establishing and Assessing Options'
Working on an EU Horizon 2020 grant project on how EU Free Trade Agreements and wider trade policy reflects the goal of securing sustainable agricultural practices
Leading the Negotiating a Turbulent World theme for the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy

Consulting

Instructor for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and development Office’s Advanced Diplomatic Academy and have provided training for a number of UK government Departments
Instructor for Policyware (forthcoming)
Co-authored reports on pesticides and UK FTAs with Pesticide Action Network and Sustain

Education

Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (EU Framework 7, DISSETTLE project), Bocconi University (2014)
PhD from King’s College London
MSc (with distinction) from Oxford University

Lydgate examines how economic integration shapes policy and legislation; and how governments and international trade agreements reconcile trade liberalisation and climate/environmental protection.