Giorgio Andrian

Francesco Bosello

Jonah Busch

Paola Carrabba

Celia Harvey

Pushpam Kumar

Anil Markandya

Paulo A.L.D. Nunes

Stavros Papageorgiou

Rosimeiry Portela

Ferdinando Villa

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Pushpam Kumar, University of Liverpool

Professor Department of Geography University of Liverpool Roxby Building, University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK P: +44 151.794.2877 F: +44 151.794.2866 Email: pushpam@liv.ac.uk URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/staff/kumar.htm

Over the past two decades, Dr. Pushpam Kumar has acquired extensive experience as a teacher, researcher and research coordinator in the field of environmental economics and management at the University of Liverpool (current), the University of Cambridge, the Institute of Economic Growth and the University of Delhi.

His research interests include: valuation and accounting of ecosystem services and environmental damages; policies and response options for ecosystem management; and poverty-ecosystems linkages. He was Coordinating Lead Author and Coordinator, Responses Working Group for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He was also Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC (Mitigation) which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

In addition to his work with TEEB, he currently serves on the expert panel of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) on Accounting for Ecosystem Services; he is also a member of the National Ecosystem Assessment Expert Panel in the UK (2009-2011). Pushpam is an elected member of the Board of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics and Ecological Economy, and he is a regular contributor of policy-relevant research papers on the theme of ecological economics to journals of international repute.