Scott BARRETT (Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University SIPA)

Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University in New York City with appointments in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute.

His research develops a theory of international cooperation, mainly grounded in game theory and applied to global environmental and public health issues. His models explain critical features of treaties and customary law, and show what these institutions are and are not able to achieve. He uses this approach to propose ways in which international institutions could be designed to achieve greater success.

Inmaculada MARTINEZ-ZARZOSO (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen et University Jaume I)

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso is Professor at the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Director of the Institute of International Economics at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (Spain). She is president of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) and member of the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CEMIG) and the Center of Data Science (CIDAS) at the University of Goettingen, as well as author of three books and of more than 150 articles in academic journals in the fields of international trade, development and environmental economics. 

She has advised numerous international and national institutions including the World Bank, the OECD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the German Ministry of Development, and the Spanish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.