Amir Lebdioui is the director of the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre at the University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the Oxford Department of International Development. Before joining Oxford, Amir was based at SOAS, University of London, and the London School of Economics (LSE). 

His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversification, natural resource management, green economic transformation and biodiversity-based innovation models. He is the author of Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Latin American trade in the age of climate change: impact, opportunities, and policy options (LSE, 2022) 

Amir also regularly advises governments, international institutions (including the IEA, IRENA, World Bank, UNDP, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Latin American development Bank-CAF) and think tanks on green industrial policy. He was appointed by the Brazilian presidency to the independent group of experts of the G20 climate task force, serves on the advisory council of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), and is non-resident fellow at the Climate and Community Project and at the Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.