Victor Galaz

Collaborator

Victor Galaz is associate professor in political science at Stockholm Resilience Centre, and programme director of the Beijer Institute’s Governance, Technology and Complexity programme. He is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST), Member of the international Science Panel for the Amazon, and Member of the Advisory Panel to the Inter-American Development Banks (IDB) programme “Amazonia Forever”. He is a Senior Advisor to the programme Natura Tech LAC that explores responsible uses of novel technologies to accelerate biodiversity conservation and regeneration in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author of the book “Dark Machines” (Routledge, 2025) about the impacts of artificial intelligence, digitalization and automation for the Biosphere, and regular contributor in Swedish media, including as a writer for Svenska Dagbladet.

His research explores the political and governance challenges created by rapid global change, including globally networked risks, governance dimensions of “planetary boundaries”, the interplay between financial systems and Earth system dynamics, and the sustainability implications of novel technologies. Galaz's work about societal challenges created by technological change includes governance dimensions of geo-engineering, early warning systems of epidemic outbreaks, uses of social media to detect ecological change, online mis- and disinformation on environmental issues, and sustainability risks embedded in early applications of artificial intelligence.