Environmental Economics:
A Focus on Natural Resources
International Conference
7-8 April 2022
University of Orléans, France
Astrid Dannenberg (University of Kassel)
Astrid Dannenberg is Professor of Environmental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Kassel. She received her MA in economics at the University of Mannheim and her PhD at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. She has previously been a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, and Columbia University in New York City. In 2014, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council for her research project “Human Cooperation to Protect the Global Commons” (HUCO).
She has served as a Council Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) from 2016 to 2019 and is an Editorial Board Member of the journals Economic Inquiry and Environmental and Resource Economics.
Her research focuses on human decision-making, the drivers and barriers of cooperation, and how institutions can be designed to promote cooperation. The focus is on traits of human behavior and institutional arrangements that either facilitate or impede the achievement of socially beneficial outcomes.
Robert Elliott (University of Birmingham)
Robert Elliott is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham. He is an applied economist who works at the intersection of international economics, development economics, environmental and energy economics and international business. He obtained a BA (Economics) and MA (Economics) at the Universities of Leicester and Essex and studied for his PhD with Professor David Greenaway, Dr Peter Wright and Robert Hine at the University of Nottingham.
He is an editor for the Sustainable Future Policy Lab, a Director of the Trade, Environment, Development and Energy (TEDE) research group, a Co-I on ReLIB as part of the Faraday Institute, a member of Water Challenges in a Changing World IGI and an Affiliate of the Lloyds Bank Centre for Responsible Business. He is also a part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.
His main research covers empirical environmental, international trade, development, energy and labour economics. He has a particular interest in the Chinese economy, firm behaviour, natural disasters and the impact of globalisation on the environment.
Steven Poelhekke (University of Auckland)
Steven Poelhekke is professor of economics at the University of Auckland. He has studied, among other topics: the local impact of mining on infrastructure and the tradeable sector, the persistence of foreign direct investment benefits for domestic firms in developing countries, and the effects of resource wealth and multinational banks on foreign direct investment. He is a Dutch national and holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
He is also CEPR Research Affiliate, and affiliated to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute, CESifo in Munich, and OxCarre in Oxford.
His research interests cover International Trade and Investment, and their intersections with Development and Environmental Economics.
