Mohammed Usrof

Mohammed Usrof is a Palestinian researcher, writer, and organiser from Khan Yunis, Gaza, working at the intersection of climate justice, energy political economy, and decolonial movement strategy. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy (PICS), a Palestinian-led research and advocacy organisation confronting the fossil-fuel, financial, and legal systems that sustain occupation, militarisation, and ecological destruction.

His work focuses on turning research into strategies for material intervention. This includes tracing coal and oil supply chains, supporting energy embargo campaigns, examining investor–state dispute settlement and other trade rules that constrain government action, and working with legal advocates, trade unions, port workers, and climate movements to identify where fossil and military infrastructures can be challenged. His recent research has examined Colombia’s embargo on coal exports to Israel and the subsequent rerouting of supply through South Africa, connecting state policy with worker power, strategic litigation, and transnational organising.

Alongside this work, Mohammed writes on sound, popular music, and petroculture. He is interested in how colonial energy systems shape everyday sensory and cultural life, and how listening, music, memory, and artistic practice can expose fossil militarism while opening space for alternative ecological futures.

Mohammed is a Red Natural History Fellow and a PhD researcher at SOAS, University of London.