Anastasios Xepapadeas (Athens University of Economics and Business and University of Bologna)

Spatial Environmental and Resource Economics: An Overview

Anastasios Xepapadeas is currently Professor of Economics at the Department of International and European Economic Studies of Athens University of Economics and Business and the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna (parallel affiliation). On May 1, 2018 he was elected a foreign associate at the US National Academy of Sciences. He has served as Dean of the School of Economic Sciences of Athens University of Economics and Business and as Chair of the Department of International and European Economic Studies at the same University. He is past president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was editor of Environment and Development Economics from 2005-2014 and is now a member of the editorial board.

He is co-editor of Environmental and Resource Economics, a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Resource Economics and he has served as co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management He has published more than one hundred and thirty papers in leading journals and collective volumes including the American Economic Review; the European Economic Review; the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; the Journal of Mathematical Economics; the Journal of Public Economics; the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty; Science.

His current research interests include Spatiotemporal Analysis in Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Robust Control; Environment and Growth.

Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zurich)

Efficient climate policy based on resource economics

Lucas Bretschger is Full Professor of Economics/Resource Economics at ETH Zurich and was President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). His main research interests are the theory and policy of Natural Resources and the Environment, Growth, Trade, Climate, Public Sector and Regional Economies.

He is also a Research Associate of the University of Oxford and holds the title of Professor at the University of Zurich; he is a consultant to the Swiss government on climate issues and a member of the Swiss delegation at international climate negotiations. He has served on many platforms such as the German Board of Environmental and Resource Economics, the Energy Science Center, the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and the Alliance for Global Sustainability.

Lucas Bretschger was one of the founders and the first full-term Head of a new department for economists where natural resources are a central research topic. He created the Center of Economics Research CER-ETH and built up a resource economics group, where the career development of the staff is a strategic target. In 2004, he founded the now well-established SURED Conference on Monte Verità, which every two years brings together experts on sustainable resource use and economic dynamics.

Richard Tol (Sussex University)

Testing the Dismal Theorem

Richard Tol is a professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. He is also professor of the economics of climate change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics in 1997 at the VU University Amsterdam. In 1998, he contributed with some nineteen other academics to a joint project of the United Nations Environment Programme at his home university.

He regularly participates in studies of the Energy Modeling Forum, is an editor of Energy Economics, associate editor of Environmental and Resource Economics, and a member of the editorial board of Environmental Science and Policy, and Integrated Assessment. IDEAS/RePEc ranks him among the top 250 economists in the world.

Richard Tol specialises in Energy Economics and Environmental Economics, with a particular interest in climate change, such as the Economics of Global Warming. Richard Tol was a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Before that, he was the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change and director of the Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and board member of the Center for Marine and Climate Research at the University of Hamburg. Richard Tol was a board member of the International Max Planck Research Schools on Earth System Modeling and Maritime Affairs and the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment. From 1998–2008 he was an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy, and from 2010–2011 an adjunct professor at Trinity College, Dublin's Department of Economics.

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva (Bank for International Settlements)

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva became Deputy General Manager on 1 October 2015. Before joining the BIS, Mr Pereira da Silva, a Brazilian national, had been Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil since 2010. Prior to that, he worked in various positions for the World Bank in Washington DC, Tokyo and southern Africa. He also served as Chief Economist for the Brazilian Ministry of Budget and Planning, and as Brazil's Deputy Finance Minister in charge of international affairs.

His main fields of interest incude monetary policy; financial stability and macroprudential issues and DSGE models.