Biographical Statements: Speakers
and Moderators
Prof. Anil MARKANDYA
Chair of Quantitative Economics, University of Bath, UK
Program leader, International Energy Markets, Fondazione Eni Enrico
Mattei, Italy
Lead Advisor,The World Bank
Professor Markandya is an environmental 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 1974. 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 one of the Chapters of the 3rd Assessment Report on
Climate
Change published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. He holds the
Chair of
Quantitative Economics at the University of Bath in the UK (currently
on leave)
and is a program leader for the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in International
Energy Markets.
Professor Markandya has been an advisor to many national and international
organisations, including all the international development banks, UNDP,
the EU
and the governments of India and the UK. At the World bank, where he
is a Lead
Advisor, he has worked closely with many governments in Central Europe
and the
Former Soviet Union on Environmental and Energy Policy.
