Professor Anil Markandya.
Environmental Economist.
PROFESSOR ANIL MARKANDYA is an Environmental Economist who has worked in this field for over thirty years and is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science in Econometrics in 1968 and was awarded his PhD on the Economics of the Environment in 1974. Since then he has divided his time between academic and advisory work. On the academic side he has published widely in the areas of climate change, environmental valuation, environmental policy, energy and environment, green accounting, macroeconomics and trade. Some of his best-known works include, ‘Blueprint for a Green Economy’, ‘Green Accounting in Europe’, ‘Reconciling Trade and Development’ and ‘Cleaning the Ganges’. He has held academic positions at the universities of Princeton, Berkeley and Harvard in the US and at University College London and Bath University in the UK. He was a lead author for one of the Chapters of the 3rd Assessment Report on Climate Change published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. He holds a chair of economics at the University of Bath in the UK and is the Scientific Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (bc3) in Bilbao. He is recognised as one of the top 50 sustainability leaders in the world in a book by Cambridge University Press, and was a leading participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the members of which were awarded the Nobel Peace Price for 2007 with Al Gore.
Professor Markandya has been an advisor to many national and international organisations, including all the international development banks, UNDP, the EU and the governments of India and the UK. At the World Bank, he has worked closely with many governments in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union on Environmental and Energy Policy.
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Alistair Hunt, BA (Honours) Economics; MA Development Economics; PhD Economics.
Senior Environmental Economist.
ALISTAIR HUNT is a Senior Environmental Economist at Metroeconomica and Researcher at University of Bath, UK. He is an expert in the costing of climate change impacts and adaptation, the valuation of non-market environmental impacts including health, and the competitiveness impacts of environmental regulation. He contributed a background paper on Economic analysis of climate change impacts and adaptation to the recent Stern Review and acted as formal reviewer on the chapters on Adaptation. Alistair has expertise in the area of the monetary valuation of health end-points within Health Impact Assessment. He co-ordinated the three-country study of the mortality risk valuation within the NEWEXT FP5 research project and led the economic input into the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) CBA of policy scenarios. He has lectured widely on environmental economics and has worked as an environmental economist at the UK Rural Development Commission and at the UK Government Department of the Environment, Environmental Protection Economics Division.
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Nick Dale, BA (Honours) Economics; MSc Environmental Science, Policy and Planning Environmental.
Environmental Policy Specialist.
NICK DALE is a senior environmental policy specialist with over twelve years of consultancy experience. Key areas of interest include the appraisal of economic and regulatory interventions in environmental policy, capacity building for effective environmental governance, and development of sustainable development indicators. He has also worked on a variety of projects focused on the linkages between trade policy and the environment, and on environmental policy in the context of poverty alleviation. Field experience has included working as part of multi-disciplinary teams on a wide range of projects supporting environmental policy and institutions in a number of former Soviet countries, Africa, Asia and Europe. This experience has included project managing teams of local consultants in host countries and undertaking extensive stakeholder consultation programmes.
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Tim Taylor, BSc (Honours) Economics; PhD Economics.
Environmental Economist.
TIM TAYLOR is an Environmental Economist with over ten years experience. He is an expert in issues of environmental valuation, with particular interests in climate change and ecosystems, and environmental policy. Tim specialises in the tourism, heritage and agricultural sectors – having acted as a consultant to the World Bank, UNEP and European Commission on a range of projects in these fields. Presently he is working on issues of the sustainability of agricultural policy in the AG2020 project for the EC. Tim has published articles in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management and Ecological Economics and has articles forthcoming in Tourism Economics and Journal of Coastal Conservation in 2009.
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Lorraine Hudson, BSc (Honours) Environmental Sciences; D.Phil Atmospheric Chemistry.
Senior Environmental Scientist.
LORRAINE HUDSON is a senior environmental scientist at Metroeconomica with over ten years experience of working on environmental and sustainability issues within the private sector, local government and academia. Her specialist areas are climate change and sustainable energy, environmental management, Life Cycle Assessment and sustainable development policy work. Projects undertaken for Metroeconomica include the design of a system to reduce local authority greenhouse gas emissions, providing guidance and support on Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon footprinting studies, development of a life-cycle cost model, implementing an Environmental Management System and undertaking case studies exploring the costs of climate change. She has lecturing and teaching experience, has facilitated stakeholder consultations, training sessions and workshops, and has an Advanced (IEMA) EMS auditor qualification. Lorraine also holds a part-time position as Bristol City Council’s Climate Change and Built Environment Coordinator.
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Steven Arnold, BSc Economics; Mres Economics.
Environmental Economist.
STEVEN ARNOLD has been working in the field of Environmental Economics for over 4 years, specialising in the valuation and modelling of environmental impacts. He has worked on a number of large European Commission projects, including researching the external costs of energy security (for the CASES project), estimating the optimal fertilizer application rates (for SUSTOOLS) and a life-cycle analysis of municipal solid waste systems (also for SUSTOOLS). Other research interests include landscape valuation and health economics.
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Ramon Arigoni Ortiz, MSc Economics; PhD Environmental Economics.
Environmental Economist.
RAMON ARIGONI ORTIZ is an environmental economist at Metroeconomica with 10 years experience on the microeconomic analysis of policies and projects relating to air quality, health impacts of air pollution, energy use, land use and land use change, forestry, and tourism. He holds a PhD in environmental economics and his thesis focused on the mortality impact of air pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As a Brazilian national, Ramon has actively participated on several studies that have investigated the health benefits associated with policies that aimed to reduce air pollution in Brazil. In Europe, he has been involved in several projects under the umbrella of the ExternE project (Externalities of Energy), including the NEEDS project (New energy externalities developments for Sustainability), being responsible, among other things, for assessing the cost per QALY estimates obtained with medical interventions in England and Wales. Ramon also holds a research post at the Department of Economics and International Development at the University of Bath.
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Alberto Longo, PhD Economics.
Environmental Economist.
ALBERTO LONGO is an environmental economist at Metroeconomica. Alberto has a PhD in Economics and has undertaken extensive research in cost benefit analysis and in non-market valuation techniques applied to land use, cultural heritage, noise, energy, biodiversity, recreation and sport at the University of Bath, University of Maryland, University of Venice, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Queen’s University Belfast. He has advised several national and international organisations, including the United Nations Environment Programme. His works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Regional Science and Urban Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Environmental Management and Planning, Journal of Cultural Economics and at major international conferences, such as the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. Alberto has been involved in several projects under the 6th EU Framework Program: CASES, EXIOPOL, HEATCO, MAXIMA, PLUREL, THRESHOLDS.
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Helen Cox.
Administrator.
HELEN COX is the Administrator for the Metroeconomica team.
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