Keynote Speakers
Anil Markandya
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.
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 was appointed the Executive Director for the Basque Centre for Climate Change in April 2008. 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.
In 2012 he was made President Elect of the European Association of Environmental & Resource Economists (EAERE), his two year term as President beginning January 2014 and in 2013 he was elected to the scientific council of the European Environment Agency and of the Horizon 2020 Climate Programme.
Julia Steinberger
Julia Steinberger is a lecturer in ecological economics at the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds.
Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic and human wellbeing). She is interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society.
Tiago Domingos
Tiago Domingos, M.Sc. in Physical Engineering (IST) and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (IST), is an assistant professor in Energy and Environment at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IST (University of Lisbon) where he teaches or has taught M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses in Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Energy and Environment, Thermodynamics, and Environmental Modelling.
His research aims at creating a theoretical, mathematical basis for sustainability, integrating contributions from Ecology, Thermodynamics and Economics, and applying this to multiple case studies. Within this overarching framework he has most notably published in the areas of metabolic ecology, ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture, energy analysis, green accounting, and carbon responsibility.
He is the founder of Terraprima – Environmental Services, an IST Spin-Off, whose “Sown Biodiverse Pastures” project was recently the winner of the World You Like Challenge, the European Commission’s competition for the best solutions for climate change. He has been a consultant to the Portuguese Government, to WWF, to the OECD and to numerous private companies in Portugal.
