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Prof. Elizabeth J Z Robinson Prof. Anastasios Xepapadeas

Professor Elizabeth Robinson is Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.  She is an environmental economist with over twenty-five years’ experience undertaking research, particularly in lower-income countries, including six while living in Tanzania and Ghana. Her research addresses the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions, protect the environment, and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities. Her recent focus includes climate change and systemic risk; and tracking the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and health, oriented particularly around food security and food systems. From 2004-09 she was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, sub-Saharan Africa; and a Member of the global and sub-Saharan Africa design teams. She was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years; and in 2019-20, Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food, Poverty, Health, and Environment. She is Working Group 1 lead for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, that addresses climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability. Before joining the Grantham Research Institute, Elizabeth worked at the University of Reading for ten years, and prior to that she has variously worked at the Boston Consulting Group, the World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Resources Institute, and as a tutorial fellow in economics at the University of Oxford. She has a first class degree in Engineering, Economics, and Management from Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University.

Anastasios Xepapadeas is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna and Professor Emeritus of the Department of International and European Economic Studies of Athens University of Economics and Business where he served as Dean of the School of Economic Sciences. He is an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is past president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and past editor in chief of Environment and Development Economics.

He is co-editor of Environmental and Resource Economics, a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Resource Economics and serves as editor for PNAS manuscripts. He has published more than 150 papers in leading journals and collective volumes including the American Economic Review; European Economic Review; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Geography; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Public Economics; Management Science; PNAS; Nature Climate Change, Science and written or edited ten books.

His current research interests include Spatiotemporal Analysis in Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Robust Control.

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