Dr. Florian Krampe is a Swedish-German political scientist working at the intersection of peace and conflict research, climate and environmental security, and international security.
Florian Krampe is Director of the Climate Change and Risk Programme and Director of Studies for Peace and Development at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). For seventeen years his research has followed a single question: how the physical environment shapes the prospects for peace, and what governments and institutions can actually do about it. The work concentrates on the ecological foundations of durable peace, and on the governance of renewable natural resources in societies emerging from war.
Since joining SIPRI he has advised policymakers across the United Nations system, including the Security Council, the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He works with regional organisations including the African Union, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), NATO and the European Union, and provides expert input and policy advice to governments including Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland and South Korea.
Krampe is an Affiliated Researcher at the Research School for International Water Cooperation in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He served as Specially Appointed Professor at the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability at Hiroshima University, Japan, and from 2014 to 2016 directed the Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University, an interdisciplinary initiative supporting research on South Asia across the humanities and social sciences.
His scholarly work has been published in International Affairs, World Development, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, Political Geography, Environment and Security, Ambio, Earth System Dynamics and The Lancet Global Health. The research behind it has been supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), Mistra, Hiroshima University, UNEP, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the European Union, the Swedish Armed Forces, and the foreign ministries of Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark.
He speaks regularly on climate security, environmental peacebuilding and geopolitical risk, at the United Nations, at COP summits, at the European Parliament, and at conferences including TEDxMidAtlantic in Washington DC, DLD and the Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior Military Officers in Singapore. Upcoming and past engagements are listed under talks.
His research has been featured in international media, including the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Reuters, Foreign Policy, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Nikkei Asia, Hindustan Times, Deutsche Welle, The East African, The Independent, Asahi Shimbun, France 24, Sky News Arabia and Tagesschau.
He is at work on Kinetic Earth: How a Changing Planet is Rewriting the Rules of War, Peace and Power.
Krampe holds a PhD and an MSSc from Uppsala University, Sweden, and a BA from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
