Francisco Venes is a freelancer and researcher, Portugal.
He is a researcher of green extractivism policies, focusing on communities, civic movements, and the environmental costs of mining.
Francisco holds a MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a MSc in Development Economics from FLACSO Ecuador. Currently, he works as research assistant at the Department of Development, Environment and Territory at FLACSO Ecuador and contributes to the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJATLAS) initiative. His research interests include China-Latin America relations, socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and Ecologically unequal exchange.
