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INSTRUCTORS
Anil Markandya, Basque Centre for Climate Change and University of Bath
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Professor Markandya has worked in the
field of resource and environmental economics for over thirty years
and is acknowledged as one of the authorities in this area. He graduated
from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science in Econometrics
in 1968 and was awarded his PhD from the same institution on the Economics
of the Environment in 1975.
He has published widely in the areas of climate change, environmental
valuation, biodiversity, environmental policy, energy and environment,
green accounting, macroeconomics and trade. Some of his best]known
works include, ‘Blueprint for a Green Economy’ (awarded the Mazzotti
Prize for contributions to ecology in 1991), ‘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 Chapters of the 3rd and 4th IPCC
Assessment Reports on Climate Change, which were awarded a share of
the Nobel Peace in 2007. Recently he was nominated by Cambridge University
as one of the top 50 contributors to thinking on sustainability in
the world and won 2nd Prize for a paper on climate change delivered
to the World Energy Council (2008 Meetings). Professor Markandya has
also acted as a consultant to a number of national and international
organisations and recently served as Lead Economist at the World Bank.
Anil Markandya is currently Professor of Economics at the University
of Bath, UK and Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change in
the Basque Country, Spain.
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