Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer in International Studies within Justice & Society, University of South Australia. He has held a 6-month Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and Visiting Scholar positions at SOAS, University of London, Queen Mary, University of London and Keele University. His articles have appeared in journals such as Environmental Politics, Third World Quarterly, Society & Natural Resources and Pacific Review. He is the author of Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South (Routledge 2014; Updated Paperback Edition, NIAS/NUS Press 2017) and is lead editor of Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society (Routledge: First Edition 2021, Second Edition 2024) and the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar (2018).