KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future. Goulder graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy in 1973, obtained a master's degree in musical composition from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in 1975 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. He has published extensively in the main academic journals in the field of economics. Goulder's research examines the environmental and economic impacts of U.S. and international environmental policies, including policies to deal with climate change and pollution from power plants and automobiles. His work often employs a general equilibrium analytical framework that integrates the economy and the environment and links the activities of government, industry, and households. The research considers both the aggregate benefits and costs of various policies as well as the distribution of policy impacts across industries, income groups, and generations.
Ottmar Edenhofer is Professor of Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin and Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and is currently leading Research Domain III (Sustainable Solutions) that focuses on research in the field of the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. He is member of the Science-Industry Cooperation and member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Workgroup Climate, Energy and Environment. He has published articles in Science, Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Energy Policy and other peer-reviewed journals and authored a number of books. He was a Lead Author for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC from 2004 until 2007 and recently co-edited the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN). Edenhofer’s research explores the impact of induced technological change on mitigation costs and mitigation strategies, as well as the design of instruments for climate and energy policy.
Dallas Burtraw is Darius Gaskings senior fellow fellow at Resources for the Future. His education includes a B.S. in community economic development, University of California at Davis, an M.P.P in public policy and a Ph.D. in economics, University of Michigan. He is one of the leading U.S. experts on environmental regulation in the energy sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He has also dealt with electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation, and has been particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation. He has published on all those topics in the main academic journals in the field of energy and environmental economics.
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Denny Ellerman is an internationally recognized expert on energy and environmental economics with a particular focus on climate policy, emissions trading, and interactions with energy markets. He is area director of the climate policy research unit and a part-time professor at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence. He recently retired as a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he was for many years executive director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He is a co-author of the leading books on the US SO2 and the EU CO2 Allowance Trading Programs. Prior to going to MIT, Denny spent 18 years in Washington, D.C., working for the US Government (primarily the Department of Energy and its predecessors), the National Coal Association, and was President of the International Association for Energy Economics in 1990. Nowadays, he serves on the scientific board of Economics for Energy.
Eskeland, with a PhD in economics, has worked in developing countries in senior research positions at the World Bank and Center for Climate Research Oslo before accepting the Sparebanken Vest Chair in Environmental Economics at NHH, Bergen. Theoretical contributions include optimal taxation with environmental objectives, and political economy models in environmental protection. Applications include benefit estimation, air pollution and transport, pollution haven analysis, energy economics, shipping markets, climate policy. Recent work on climate change has included energy sector analysis, the effects of climate change on the European energy sector and the European climate goals for 2020. Eskeland is heavily involved in the new Master’s profile at NHH: Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment, with an international student body, and is directing the Energy and Climate research program.
Michael Hanemann is Distinguished Sustainability Scientist and Professor at the Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Sustainability at the Arizona State University. He recently retired as Chancellor's professor and Professor of environmental and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was on the faculty since 1968 and continues to collaborate as a graduate instructor. Prior to going to Berkeley, he earned a B.A. from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is a leading academic in the field of environmental economics. Nowadays, he serves on the scientific board of Economics for Energy.
Anil Markandya is executive director of the Basque Research Centre on Climate Change (BC3). 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. 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 one of the core team that drafted the IPCC 4th Assessment that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2008 he was nominated by Cambridge University as one of the 50 most influential thinkers on sustainability in the world. He 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.
Juan Pablo Montero is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the PUC Chile. He has researched on applied microeconomics, industrial organization and environmental economics. Within environmental and energy economics he has contributed to the knowledge of tradeable permits with market power and incomplete monitoring or to the effects of allowance banking. He has published extensively in the leading international journals of economics.
Karsten Neuhoff is Director of the Berlin office of Climate Policy Initiative and Research Director for Climate Policy Impact and Industry Response at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Before moving to Berlin, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, carrying out research on power systems, renewable integration and technology policy. Karsten is now complementing his previous research interests with analyses of the implementation of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and of North-South climate cooperation. His education includes an MSc in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, an MSc in Economics from the LSE, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in the leading international journals of energy and environmental economics.
Massimo Tavoni is deputy coordinator of the Climate Change Economics units both at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC). From 2008 to 2010 he was research associate at Princeton University. His research is about energy and climate change economics, and specifically the modeling and evaluation of international climate mitigation policies. He is also interested in the interplay between energy, climate and environmental policies. Massimo has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature, including work that was featured in "Time" magazine's list of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2009”. He is a lead author for the 5th assessment report of the IPCC, the co-director of the annual International Energy Workshop and lecturer for the PhD in “Science and Management of Climate Change” at the University of Venice. Massimo holds a Laurea cum Laude in Engineering from the University of Bologna, an MSc in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Political Economics from the Catholic University of Milan.