Jason Garcia Portilla

Biography

Dr Jason Garcia-Portilla is a Lecturer in Business Management (University of Winchester, UK). He is an expert in the religion–development–environment nexus. His mixed-methods interdisciplinary book elucidates the factors leading to the differences in prosperity across 66 countries in Europe and the Americas. In addition to his work on prosperity, corruption, and Christianity, he is an expert in climate change and environment with 14 years of progressive experience in the field. He spent over two years working as an official negotiator of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). During this assignment, he represented the Colombian government in seven rounds of negotiation and took part in several international initiatives, including the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. He was appointed as a reviewer of the 5th & 6th Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

He holds a PhD in Organizations and Culture (University of St Gallen, Switzerland), an MSc in Climate Change and Policy (University of Sussex, UK), an MA in Political Science (University of Los Andes, Colombia), and a degree in Ecology (Javeriana University, Colombia).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books

2022
Garcia Portilla, J. “Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits” A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption, Competitiveness, and Christianity in Europe and the Americas. Springer International Publishing: Contributions to Economics Series doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2024           
Lestar, T. & Garcia Portilla, J.  Potluck in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Two auto-ethnographic accounts. In: Tamas Lestar, Manuela Pilato & Hugues Séraphin (Eds.). Eating Together in the Twenty-first Century. Social Challenges, Community Values, Individual Wellbeing. Routledge

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2019               
Garcia Portilla, J. “Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”: Prosperity and Institutional Religion in Europe and the Americas. Religions 10(6):362. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060362

Other contributions

2023               
Garcia Portilla, J. Climate Change Impacts and Evidence of Migration in Colombia. Preprints 2022, 2022110008 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202211.0008.v1).