Robert Metcalfe is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on using field experimental methods to understand human behavior in consumer markets and within organizations. A running theme in his research is to understand such behavior and the measurement of welfare in the presence of behavioral imperfections and externalities, such as pollution, climate change, congestion, and market power. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics and Research Associate of NBER.

Mirabelle Muûls is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Imperial College Business School and the co-director of the Hitachi-Imperial Centre for Decarbonisation and Natural Climate Solutions. She is also a Research Associate at the Grantham Institute and CEPR, a Research Fellow at the National Bank of Belgium and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Her current research focuses on the economics of climate change, seeking in particular to understand the impact of carbon markets on firms' emissions, energy efficiency, innovation, competitiveness and performance, and the interactions with financial markets. Her research interests also cover energy demand, in particular household's behavioural response to different incentives and their flexibility, through the analysis of smart meter data and randomised control trials.

Antonio M. Bento is a Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics of the University of Southern California. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a research fellow of the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. He is an applied microeconomist with a research program in the areas of environmental, energy, urban, and public economics. In particular, he has written on topics related to the design of climate change mitigation policies and the interactions of (new) environmental policies with the broader tax system; the effectiveness of policies that promote the expansion of biofuels, renewable energy, and the diffusion of cleaner technologies; causes and remedies of urban sprawl and urban environmental challenges in developed and developing countries; individual responses to real-time pricing; and the distributional impacts of various environmental policies, including gasoline taxes.

Simon Dietz is Professor of Environmental Policy at the London School of Economics, where he holds appointments in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Department of Geography and Environment. He is also Research Director of the LSE Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Centre, co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, a Food System Economics Commissioner, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a former Vice President and Council Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. His research interests are in climate change and sustainability, including integrated assessment modelling, welfare economics, insurance, corporate sustainability and climate finance.

Kenneth Gillingham is a Professor of Economics at Yale University and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Yale School of the Environment. Prior to joining Yale, he worked at Resources for the Future and the integrated assessment modeling group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In 2015-2016 he served as the Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and energy modeling. His research examines the adoption of new energy technologies, energy efficiency, quantitative policy and program analysis, and climate change policy. He received a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering and Economics, as well as M.S. degrees in Statistics and Management Science & Engineering, from Stanford University.

Matthieu Glachant is head of CERNA, centre for industrial economics, and a Professor of Economics at MINES ParisTech, PSL. His research is in the fields of environmental economics and energy economics. Specific areas of expertise include the economics of green innovation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste policies, and adaptation to climate change. He is a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (LSE) since 2012. Matthieu was an invited presenter in several AWEEEs.

Sébastien Houde is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics at HEC Lausanne (Université de Lausanne) and a research affiliate at Enterprise for Society, ETH Zürich, and the E2e Project. He received his PhD from Stanford University. His research explores themes at the nexus of energy and climate issues. He is particularly interested in research projects where data, technologies, behaviors, and environmental/energy policies come into play. Before joining the Department of Economics at HEC Lausanne, he worked at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), ETH Zürich, the University of Maryland (AREC), and Resources for the Future.

José M. Labeaga is a Professor of Economics at the Spanish Open University (UNED). PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, his main research interests lay in the analysis of individual behavior in consumption and labour decisions, and on the simulation and assessment of the effects of different public policies. He has been general director of the Spanish Institute for Fiscal Studies and has served in the board of different organizations and journals. José M. has participated in several AWEEEs as an invited presenter and discussant.

Matti Liski is a Professor of Economics at Aalto University School of Business and a CEPR Research Fellow. His also an affiliate at MIT-CEEPR, University of Cambridge EPRG, CESifo Munich, and has been a visiting professor at Toulouse School of Economics. He teaches a broad range of courses from principles of economics and executive MBA to advanced doctoral courses. His research focus is both theoretical and empirical microeconomics with applications in industrial organization, public policy, energy markets, and climate change. He is has held several editorial duties in journals and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of European Economic Association

Juan-Pablo Montero is Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC Chile) and has held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and Stanford's CLAS and Economics Department. He received a Civil Engineering degree from PUC Chile and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from MIT. His research work concentrates on industrial organization, environmental and resource economics and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He has served in the editorial boards of several journals and now is Associate Editor of the RAND Journal of Economics. He has also been a consultant for the Government of Chile, private corporations and international organizations in topics of industrial organization and environmental regulation. In 2007 he was named "Chilean Economist of the Year" by El Mercurio, Chile's main newspaper, and in 2019 Fellow of the Econometric Society. Juan-Pablo has participated in all AWEEE as a keynote or invited speaker.

Misato Sato is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE. She is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, a Co-Editor of the Environmental and Resource Economics journal, and a DIW Fellow.Her research explores the barriers to delivering a rapid low carbon transition, particularly for industrial sectors. Much of her work evaluates the effectiveness of climate change and energy policies, and quantifies their impacts on firms' environmental and economic outcomes. She is also interested in measuring how the low-carbon transition is changing the demand for skills in the labour force.

Herman Vollebergh is a Professor of Economics and Environmental Policy at Tilburg University and Senior Research Fellow at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is also CESifo Research Fellow in München. His current research covers a broad range of topics including the design and effects of market based incentive mechanisms, like taxation, subsidies and tradeable permits in the energy or waste market, and the effect of environmental policy on technological change. He has always been strongly involved in applying his academic work to the policy community including the OECD, European Union and the Dutch government.

Simon Black is an Economist at the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department where he specializes in climate change mitigation, carbon pricing, and environmental taxation. Before joining the IMF he was a Climate Economist at the World Bank and a Climate Economist at the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). In 2014-5 he served on the UK delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where he helped negotiate the Paris Agreement. He also has a background in consulting and financial services advisory. He holds a Master's in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Master's in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He has authored several articles the economics of climate change and has advised dozens of governments on their emissions reductions strategies.

Lucas Bretschger is a Professor of Economics/Resource Economics at ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich. He is the Past President of the EAERE and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. His main research interests are the theory and policy of natural resources and the environment as well as endogenous growth, international trade, and climate economics. A recent focus of his research has been sustainable development under the constraints of resource scarcity, stock pollution, climate shocks, and population growth. Lucas Bretschger has been a consultant to the Swiss government on climate and energy issues and a member of the Swiss delegation at international climate negotiations. He is the organizer of the EAERE-ETH Winter school and the founder of the SURED Conference on Monte Verità, which brings together leading experts on sustainable resource use and economic dynamics. Lucas was a keynote speaker at the 9th AWEEE.

Anne Neumann is a Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology at NTNU (Norway), where she is Director of Research for NTNU's Energy Transition Initiative. Adjunct Professor at NHH and MIT-CEEPR Affiliate, she serves as President  for the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) in 2024. Previously she worked as Senior Researcher in the Department Energy, Transport, Environment at DIW Berlin and was Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Potsdam. Her research experience draws on industrial organization, competition economics and econometrics. She is currently Senior Editor with Energy Policy and on the Editorial Board of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy.

Soledad Núñez Ramos holds a PhD. in Economics from University of Minnesota. She started her professional career in 1987 as an economist in Banco de España (Spanish national central bank), where she worked until 2004, except for a brief period  in 2003 when she was on secondment in the Bank of England. In May 2004 she was appointed as Director General of Economic Policy in the Office of Economic Adviser of the Prime Minister of the Government of Spain. From February 2005 to December 2011 she was General Director of the Treasury and Financial Policy in the Spanish Government. In 2012 she was appointed as external member of the T2S Board, position that she held until 2015 and from December 2014 to February 2015 she was an independent board member at Banco Madrid. In December 2015 she rejoined Banco de España as a Senior Advisor in the DG of Financial Stability, Regulation and Resolution and since September 2018 she is a member of the Executive Commission and of the Government Council. Additionally, she has been an associated professor at Universidad Complutense of Madrid and IE University.

Zhang Xiliang is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering and director of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy of Tsinghua University. He is a member of the National Experts Panel on Climate Change and the Chair of the Energy Systems Engineering Committee of the China Energy Research Society. He has been heading the expert group of national carbon market design since 2015. He was a lead author of the fourth and fifth IPCC Climate Change Assessment Report. He was granted the Leading Talent Award by Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the First Award for Humanity and Social Science Research by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2020.

Beatriz Yordi is Director of Climate Markets and Clean Mobility at the European Commission. She specialized in Physics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with her professional career starting at the Spanish agency CIEMAT and in a joint venture for the first European solar PV plant. A pioneer in renewable energy policies, she joined the European Commission in 1994, working on Eco-innovation and green businesses, the promotion of renewables, and the LIFE programme in respectively DG Environment, DG Energy, EASME and DG Climate Action.

Simone Borghesi is Director of the Florence School of Regulation-Climate (FSR Climate), part-time Professor at the EUI, Deputy Rector for International Relationships and Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Siena, Italy. He is President of EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) and member of its Policy Outreach Committee. He is also member of CEPR-RPN (Center for Economic Policy and Research?Research and Policy Network), member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center on Regulation and Markets of Brookings Institution and Co-director of the research group R4S (Regulation for Sustainability) at the University of Siena.

Dallas Burtraw is a senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). Burtraw's current research includes analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of climate policy, the evolution of electricity markets including renewable integration, and the interaction of climate policy with electricity markets. He has provided technical support in the design of carbon dioxide emissions trading programs in the Northeast states, California, and the European Union. He also has studied regulation of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide under the Clean Air Act and conducted integrated assessment of costs, and modeled health and ecosystem effects and valuation, including ecosystem improvement in the Adirondack Park and the southern Appalachian region. Burtraw currently serves as Chair of California's Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee. Dallas was a keynote speaker at the 5th AWEEE.

Carlo Carraro is President Emeritus and a Professor of Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He was President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Vice-chair and member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and member of the Strategic Board of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). Carraro was also President of the National Committee on Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructures and Mobility and a member of DG ECFIN High Level Advisory Group in Brussels. He is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and of the EAERE, and a member of of the World Economic Forum Expert Network and a Research Fellow of CEPR, London, CESifo, Munich and CEPS, Brussels. Carlo was a keynote speaker at the 3rd AWEEE.

Ottmar Edenhofer is a Professor of the Climate Economics and Public Policy at the Technische Universität in Berlin. He is Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, as well as Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. From 2008 to 2015, he served as Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. In 2020, Ottmar Edenhofer was ranked among the 1% of the most cited scientists worldwide in the category "interdisciplinary science" according to the Web of Science citation index. The FAZ placed Ottmar Edenhofer in 2019 and 2020 among the 10 most influential economists in Germany. He currently chairs the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, set by the European Climate Law. Ottmar was a keynote speaker at the 5th AWEEE.

Denny Ellerman was director of FSR Climate from 2011-2014. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer at MIT & Sloan School of Management, where he was for many years executive director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) and the Joint Programme on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He is an internationally recognised expert on energy and environmental economics with a particular focus on climate policy, emissions trading, and interactions with energy markets. Denny has participated in several AWEEE editions as an invited presenter and discussant.

Lawrence H. Goulder is Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center for Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis. Goulder graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy, obtained a master's degree in musical composition from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1982. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Harvard before returning to Stanford's economics department in 1989. Goulder's research covers a range of environmental issues, including green tax reform, the design of environmental tax systems and emissions trading policies, climate change policy, and comprehensive wealth measurement ("green" accounting). He has served on several advisory committees to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board and the California Air Resources Board, and as co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Larry was a keynote speaker at the 5th AWEEE.

Michael Hanemann is a Professor of Economics at Arizona State University, where he directs the Center of Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy. Prior to ASU, he was Professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley for more than 40 years. He is an environmental economist who works in the areas of water economics and policy, climate change and non-market valuation. In 2008 the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists gave him the European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics. Michael has participated in most AWEEEs as invited speaker.

Pedro Linares is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the ICAI School of Engineering (Spain) and co-founder and Director of Economics for Energy. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Technology Research (IIT), Affiliate Researcher at the MIT CEEPR and the U. Cambridge EPRG, and Senior Fellow at Esade EcPol. Currently he serves as Director of the International Doctoral School of Comillas Pontifical University, and as Editor in Chief of The Energy Journal. Pedro is a usual presenter and has been involved in the organization of many AWEEEs.

Maria L. Loureiro is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Scientific Director of the Galician Inter-university research centre ECOBAS. She got her Phd from Washington State University (USA) and has taught at Colorado State University (USA) and at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her main field of research is the economics of climate change and natural resources and she is included in the top 2% of the most influential scientists in the world according to Stanford University. Regarding the transfer of knowledge, her work of valuation of environmental impacts has been used in the judicial process of claiming damages caused by the Prestige oil spill. Since 2004 she has participated in most AWEEEs as presenter and organizer.

Ayumi Onuma is a Professor at Tokyo's Keio University. He is a past President of the Society of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and Vice-President of the East Asian Association of Environmental Resource Economists (EAAERE, now AAERE). His current research interests revolve around biodiversity and natural resources. In particular, he researches the economics of disaster prevention and mitigation using nature as a Nature-based Solution in response to the increased risk of flooding due to climate change. Ayumi has participated in many AWEEE editions as an invited presenter.

Karen Palmer is a senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector. Her work seeks to improve the design of environmental and technology regulations in the sector and the development of new institutions to help guide the ongoing transition of the electricity sector. She is the recipient of the Public Utility Research Center's 2015 Distinguished Service Award and was elected as an AERE Fellow in 2018. Karen was a keynote speaker at the 7th AWEEE.

Mar Reguant is ICREA Researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics. Before joining IAE-CSIC, she was a BSE Research Fellow and Professor at Northwestern University, where she is still a part-time professor. She has also taught at Stanford GSB and Toulouse School of Economics. Reguant is one of the most recognized researchers in Energy and Climate Economics where, among other things, she has examined the impact of carbon prices on electricity markets, the exercise of market power by power plants in the presence of dynamic costs, the interaction between market power and leakage in cap-and-trade regulations, the impacts of market power in sequential markets and the distributional impacts of climate policies. She also dedicates part of her time to offering guidance on energy and environmental policy around the world, for example as part of a group of 26 experts guiding France's President Emmanuel Macron on Great Economic Challenges, where she was co-leader of the group on Climate Change.

Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served as the John C. Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. Prof. Schmalensee was a Member of President G. H. W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served for 12 years (1991-99 and 2008-12) as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, taught at the University of California, San Diego from 1970 until 1977, and then joined the MIT faculty. Dick was a keynote speaker at the 6th AWEEE.

Sjak Smulders is Professor of economics at Tilburg University, Department of Economics and Tilburg Sustainability Centre. Previously he held the Svare Chair at the University of Calgary and was Leibniz professor at Leipzig university and visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow at CESifo and the Kiel Institute, and advised World Bank and OECD. Smulders' research examines the impact of environmental and energy policies on economic growth, as well as the sources of economic growth in a variety of contexts. Other interests include climate economics, economic history, and international trade. Sjak was a keynote speaker at the 1st AWEEE.

Rick van der Ploeg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow of CEPR, CESifo and the Tinbergen Institute. His research is on the economics of climate change and the economics of resource-rich economics, focusing mainly on macroeconomic growth and open economy issues, financial questions, and problems in public economic and political economy. In the past he has been at the University of Cambridge, LSE, Tilburg, VU and the European University, Florence. He has also been a Chief Financial Spokesperson in the Dutch Parliament, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands, and Vice Chair of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. He has extensive consultancy experience with supranational organisations, governments, and private businesses. Rick was a keynote speaker at the 7th AWEEE.