Grasian Mkodzongi is an Executive Director at Tropical Africa- Land and Natural Resources Research Institute (Tropical Africa LNRRI) based in Harare, Zimbabwe. In August 2024, he will be starting a new job as a Senior Visiting African scholar at the Nordic Africa Institute in August 2024. He is also a Contributing Editor of the Review of African Political Economy journal (UK). Until 2015, he was a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Western Cape and A.C. Jordan Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2013. He has published extensively on land and agrarian reform, extractives, climate change, energy transition and green minerals. His current research focuses on the intersection of Climate Change, Energy Transition, Green Minerals and Economic Development in Africa. His latest article focusing on the political economy of the climate crisis in southern Africa was published by ROAPE in 2023.
