Anil Markandya (Scientific Director)
CURRICULUM VITAE
- Professor Markandya is a resource economist who has worked in this field for over thirty years and is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities.
- He
graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science
in Econometrics in 1968 and was awarded his Ph.D. on the Economics of
the Environment in 1975.
- Since then he has divided
his time between academic and advisory work. On the academic side he
has published widely in the areas of climate change, environmental
valuation, environmental policy, energy and environment, green
accounting, macroeconomics and trade. Some of his best-known works
include, ‘Blueprint for a Green Economy’, ‘Green Accounting in Europe’,
‘Reconciling Trade and Development’ and ‘Cleaning the Ganges’.
- He
has held academic positions at the universities of Princeton, Berkeley
and Harvard in the US and at University College London and Bath
University in the UK.
- He was a lead author for Chapters of the 3rd and 4th IPCC Assessment Reports on Climate Change.
- He
holds a chair of economics at the University of Bath in the UK and has
been appointed the Executive Director for the Basque Centre for Climate
Change in April of this year.
- Professor Markandya has
worked extensively on climate change and energy and environment issues
and has received a number of awards.
- He was one of the core team that drafted the IPCC 4th Assessment that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
- Recently
he was author of a paper on climate regulation that was awarded 2nd
Prize at the World Energy Council in Rome in November 2007.
- In 2008 he was nominated by Cambridge University as one of the 50 most influential thinkers on sustainability in the world.
- Professor Markandya has also been an advisor to many national and international organizations,
including all the international development banks, UNDP, the EU and the
governments of India and the UK. At the World Bank he was a Lead
Advisor and worked closely on energy and environmental issues with many
governments in Asia, Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Climate Change is very different from other challenges we have faced as a Planet. In spite of the great effort that we have made in the last 20 years, we still have many gaps in our knowledge.
From BC3, The Basque Climate Change Research Centre, we aim to address a multidisciplinar excellent researching activity in order to have a better understanding of the real problem".