Anil Markandya

Professor Markandya has worked extensively on environmental problems from an economic viewpoint.

He was a lead author for Chapters of the 3rd and 4th IPCC Assessment Reports on Climate Change, which were awarded a share of the Nobel Peace in 2007. He has also been a Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report published in 2014, and a contributing author for the special report on 1.5ºC. He has also published widely on resource valuation and regulation in the context of sustainable development.

In 2008 he was nominated by Cambridge University as one of the top 50 contributors to thinking on sustainability in the world. From 2000 to 2006 he was a Lead Economist at the World Bank. He has acted as advisor to several governments and international organizations over the last 30 years.

Professor Markandya was President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics from 2014-2015. Currently he is Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change in the Basque Country, Spain and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Bath, UK.

Professor Markandya graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science in Econometrics in 1968 and was awarded his Ph.D. from the same institution on the Economics of the Environment in 1975. He has held academic positions at the universities of Princeton and Harvard in the US and at University College London and Bath University in the UK.