Morena Hanbury Lemos is a doctoral candidate in Ecological Economics at ICTA-UAB. She obtained a master’s degree in Political Ecology, Degrowth, and Environmental Justice from UAB, a master’s in Decolonial Thought and Humanities, and a bachelor’s in Environmental Management from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil.

Her research focuses on how colonial patterns are perpetuated in the global economy, including the analysis of unequal exchange between formally colonised and colonising countries. She investigates public policies that can promote economic sovereignty, decolonisation, and the reorganisation of resources and labour to sustainably meet the needs of the populations in the Majority World. For her, degrowth is a response to the demands for justice from the historical anti-colonial, environmental, and social movements of the South.