Environmental Economics: 

A Focus on Natural Resources

International Conference

4-5 April 2024


University of Orléans, France

Katheline Schubert  (Paris School of Economics) 

Katheline Schubert is a professor of economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and associate chair at Paris School of Economics. She is a member of the French High Council for Climate (Haut Conseil pour le Climat), member of the French Council of Economic Analysis (Conseil d'Analyse Economique, CAE), member of the French Economic Council of Sustainable Development (Conseil Economique du Dévelopement Durable, CEDD). Katheline is also CESIfo research fellow, co-director of the Globalization, development and environment program at CEPREMAP, past president of the French Economic Association (AFSE), associate editor of the European Economic Review, editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and co-editor of Resource and Energy Economics.

Ilan Noy  (Victoria University of Wellington

Ilan Noy is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change-Te Āwhionukurangi, at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of natural hazards, disasters, and climate change, and other related topics in environmental, development, and international economics. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. He previously worked at the University of Hawai’i, and has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD, UNDRR, the IMF, and ASEAN CDRI, and several governments-including Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. 

Carolyn Fischer  (The World Bank

Carolyn Fischer is Research Manager of the Sustainability and Infrastructure Team in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Her research addresses issues of technical change, trade, and emissions leakage in environmental policy instrument design. She was previously appointed professor of environmental economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, held the Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy at University of Ottawa, and was the Marks Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University. She enjoys research fellow affiliations with Resources for the Future and the CESifo Research Network. She has served on the boards of both the American and European Associations of Environmental and Resource Economists, as well as expert advisory councils for research institutes in Europe and in North America, and is co-editor of Environmental and Resource Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Stefan Baumgärtner  (University of Freiburg)

Stefan Baumgärtner holds the Chair of Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His expertise in research, teaching, and outreach is in ecological, environmental, and resource economics, with a focus on sustainability. Stefan Baumgärtner serves as an expert advisor on the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services to several public interests, including the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment, and various agencies of the Republic of Namibia. He is the author of several books, including Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics (2006) and Philosophy of Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (2005, in German), and more than 100 scholarly articles. Stefan is a co-editor of the journal Ecological Economics.