Andrew Lawrence has over twenty years of experience teaching and researching in Africa, Europe, and North America. Affiliations prior to joining the faculty of the African Energy Leadership Centre of the Wits Business School include the University of Virginia, City University of New York, and University of Edinburgh. He has also been a visiting professor at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria, and visiting Erasmus Professor at l’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale as well as visiting research scholar at the European University Institute, in Italy.
He has published extensively in the fields of labour and development, energy and climate politics, comparative and global political economy, and worker and employer collective action, with recent articles in Competition and Change, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, and Review of International Political Economy. His most recent books are South Africa’s Energy Transition (Palgrave, 2020) and Employer and Worker Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 2014).