Emilio F. Moran is a Cuban-American ecological and environmental anthropologist, author, and global authority on human-environment interactions. After an extensive teaching career at Indiana University, where he co-founded the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) alongside Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, Moran retired as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. In 2013, he accepted a landmark appointment at Michigan State University, where he serves as the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Moran is globally renowned for his multi-decade fieldwork in the Amazon Basin.
