Nils-Axel Braathen

Nils Axel Braathen is a Principal Administrator in the Environmental Performance and Information Division of OECD’s Environment Directorate. He has been with the OECD since 1996, working i.a. on a database on instruments used for environmental policy, on estimating effective carbon prices in selected countries, on cost-benefit analyses, on economic valuation of environmental externalities, on macroeconomic modelling, on the economics of waste and on environmental impacts of transport and agriculture. Prior to joining OECD he was Deputy Director General in the Department for Long-term Planning and Policy Analysis in the Ministry of Finance, Norway. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Oslo, Norway.