Kyle Devine is an award-winning author and editor.

He is internationally recognized for his work on the environmental situation of music, featuring regularly in the media and serving in a number of advisory roles.

Kyle is the lead expert in greening music at EarthPercent, a climate charity cofounded by Brian Eno, and he is an advisor for Evolution Music, a company making records out of bioplastic. He also advised the MIT Climate Machine’s comprehensive study of live music emissions in the US and UK.

In October 2026, Kyle will join University College Dublin where he will lead a team studying the political ecology of so-called artificial intelligence in music.

Prior to UCD, Kyle spent ten years at the University of Oslo, where he taught music and environmental humanities and served in a number of leadership roles. He currently works as dean of graduate studies and professor in environmental studies at the University of Winnipeg and has held fellowships at McGill University and the University of Melbourne.

Before that, he taught at City St George’s, University of London and Worcester College, University of Oxford.