Name: Torben Kenea Mideksa
Email: torben.mideksa@nek.uu.se
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/torbenmideksa/
2025 -- present: Associate Professor (Docent) of Economics, Uppsala University.
2019 -- present: Faculty Fellow, Center for Fiscal Studies, Uppsala University.
2019 -- present: Affiliate Member of the CESifo Research Network, University of Munich.
2018 -- 2025: Assistant Professor of Economics, Uppsala University, Mentor: Peter Fredriksson
2022 -- 2004: Associate Partner at Oslo Economics, Norway
2017--2018: Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Advisor: Martin L. Weitzman
2017--2018: Postdoctoral Affiliate at the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). Advisor: Robert N. Stavins
2017--2018: Fellow of the Weatherhead Initiative on Climate Engineering at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
2012--2017: Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, the University of Oslo.
2009--2012: Research Fellow (Forsker II) at CICERO: Center for International Climate and Environment Research –
Oslo (2009--2012), Junior Research Fellow (Forsker III) at CICERO, (2007--2009), Project Assistant for
CICERO, 2006.
2002--2004: Assistant Lecturer, Mekelle University.
Environmental & resource economics, Development economics, and Political economics.
The University of Oslo, Department of Economics: Ph.D. in Economics (2012- 2017)
Date of Defense: 21 April 2017
Advisors: Bård Harstad and Halvor Mehlum
Committee: Geir Asheim, Tore Ellingsen, and Mirabelle Muuls
Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Cambridge MA
Visiting Research Scholar (Spring 2015)
Host: Robert N. Stavins
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge MA
MPA in International Development (2009- 2011)
Academic Advisor: Alberto Abadie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Cross-Registered Student in Math Department, Contact: Arthur Mattuck
Cross-Registered Student in Economics Department, Contact: Daron Acemoglu
The University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo: M Phil in Development & Environment Economics
Mekelle University, Department of Economics, Mekelle: BA in Economics
● (2019) Co-recipient of The Erik Kempe Award given by The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) for the article Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes, Review of Economic Studies 84, 1708-1734, 2017. “The prize is awarded every other year to the best paper in the field of environmental and resource economics, published in the previous two years in a refereed journal by an author affiliated to a European research institution.”
● (2011) Co-recipient of The Christopher P. Kaneb Prize, for «the best paper in environmental, resource, or energy economics by a Harvard Masters student as determined by a panel of Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. The award refers to the paper ‘The Economic Impact of Oil Endowment: The Case of Norway”
● (2009-2011) Harvard’s Dean Fellowship, which is given to “applicants who demonstrate exceptional academic ability and professional distinction, as defined by the Admissions Committee and the Financial Aid Committee...”
● (2002) Gold Medal of the Mekelle University for 2002 as Best Scoring Student in the University (Equivalent to Maxima cum laude)
● (2024 -2027) Uppsala Economic Theory Network, (together with Ola Andersson and others).
● (2023-2026) Building State Capacity for Carbon Taxation and Transition to a Low-carbon Economy,
Handelsbanken Research Foundation. (together with Chuan-Zhong Li and Messay Gebresilasse)
● (2021-2024) The Economic Origins of National Borders, Handelsbanken Research Foundation.
(together with Ola Andersson and Abdulaziz Shifa)
● (2014) Recipient of Mobility Grant from the Research Council of Norway for a research visit at the
Harvard Environmental Economics Program in spring 2015
● (2005) Student Grant of the Health Economic Research Organization of the University of Oslo for the
research on “Vaccination and Disease Eradication: Dynamic Analysis”
Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of European Economic Association, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Mathematical Social Sciences, JEEM, JAERE, etc.
● The Harvard Environmental Economics Program, 2018; The Norwegian Research Council, 2019; The Swiss National Science Foundation, 2019; The Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2019; Scientific Programme Committee for the Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024,2025); Scientific Programme Committee for the 76th Annual Congress of The International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), on August 19-21, 2020 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
● The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics.
● The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Advising 15 Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral students in Uppsala (2018 -- )
Membership in Dissertation Committees outside Uppsala
Toppi Hokkanen, Aalto University, Finland
Kajsa Ganhammar, Lund University, Sweden
Ingrid Emilie Flessum Ringstad, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway