Faculty - 2009 Summer School

Prof. Stef PROOST

Center for Economic Studies Faculty of Economics and Business Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Naamsestraat 69 B-3000 Leuven Belgium Ph.: +32 16 326801 (office) Ph.: + 32 16 326633 (secretary) Fax: +32 16 326796 E-mail: Stef.Proost@econ.kuleuven.be Url: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/stef.proost

Stef Proost is full professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. At the KULeuven he teaches transport economics, environmental economics and energy economics to economists and engineers. He is chairman of the department of economics and director of a group of 10 researchers at the Center for Economic Studies that deals with environment, energy and transport topics. He is co-founder of the Energy Institute of the KULeuven and co-founder of the spin-off Transport Mobility Leuven (TML).
He is specialised in using partial and general equilibrium models to address public policy questions: optimal pricing and investment in transport, choice of policy instruments for environmental policy, energy pricing questions. He is co-author of the models TRENEN, TREMOVE, MOLINO, MARKAL and GEM-E3 that are used widely in the EU. He coordinated and participated in several European research consortia (TRENEN-II, FUNDING, GEM-E3, PRIMES, MARKAL, CAPRI, AUTO-OIL 2, UNITE, MC-ICAM, REVENUE, etc. ). He also participated in transatlantic US-Europe research networks. He has served as expert for EU Administrations for Transport, Environment, Energy and Economic and Financial affairs, for ECMT-OECD, UIC, for the Federal and Regional governments of Belgium and for a few other national governments as well as for private firms in the energy and transport sector.

This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.
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