Emily Lydgate

Emily Lydgate is a Reader (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 at the intersection of environmental regulation and economic integration, and the interrelation between trade, agricultural and climate policies in the EU and UK. She is a Specialist Advisor to the EFRA Committee (UK House of Commons) and has provided expert testimony for a number of UK Parliamentary Committees on implications of exit from the EU. She is also an instructor for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Advanced Diplomatic Academy. She holds a PhD from King’s College London and an MSc (with distinction) from Oxford University. She was an EU-funded Marie Curie Researcher at Bocconi University and has consulted at the United Nations Environment Programme’s Economics and Trade Branch. She is currently 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, and leading a project for the UK Committee on Climate Change on trade policy and emissions reduction.