Education

Executive Educational Programme
Our educational programme has been launched in 2006. Aiming to offer interdisciplinary and international post-graduate training in the most exciting sustainability fields: ecological economics and sustainable development, we have developed three distinct international executive programme on Green Economy, Sustainable Cities and Ecosystems and conducted over 17 international sessions attracting participants from 58 countries, including Canada, USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Bosnia, Latvia, Ghana, Nigeria, China, India, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia, including representatives of UNDP, UNEP, ILO, IUCN, OECD, WWF, leading universities, NGOs and government ministries.
To see the geography of our alumni please see the map.
Our programmes are taught by the leading sustainability experts in the field, some of which are Members of Environment Europe Advisory Board: Prof. Peter Soderbaum, Prof. Herbert Girardet, Prof. Arild Vatn, Prof. Miranda Schreurs, Prof. David Elliott, Prof. Bill Dunster OBE, Prof. Erik Dietzenbacher.

The forums and schools we organize aim to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, the starting point of new projects and initiatives, a centre for learning new methodological tools and cutting edge applications in sustainability science.

Above all, attending the Summer School is a transformative learning experience and an opportunity to make friends for life with bright, passionate, and committed environmentalists from all over the world. The participants of our Summer and Winter Schools represented some of the most renowned universities and the key international organizations: UNEP, UNDP, OECD, ministries: DEFRA, and top companies: SHELL, DELOITTE which you could see in the Clients section of our website.

You could sense the spirit of our Summer Schools by exploring our images made during discussions, debates, lectures, Q&A and brainstorming sessions.
Speakers
The best representatives of the industry will share their experience and projects
  • Prof. Tensie Whelan
    NYU Stern School of Business
    Tensie Whelan (NYU '80), is a Clinical Professor for Business and Society, and the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.
    As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to work with Rainforest Alliance. She transformed the Rainforest Alliance into an internationally recognized and credible brand. Her previous work included serving as Executive Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, Managing Editor of Ambio, a journal of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a journalist in Latin America.
    Tensie has been recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics and was a Citi Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at NYU Stern.

  • John Elkington
    Volans
    John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur. Currently, he is a Founding Partner of, and Chief Pollinator at, Volans. His latest book is Green Swans (Fast Company Press, April 2020). John Elkington has coined an influential term 'triple bottom line', a sustainability framework that measures a business's success in three key areas: profit, people, and the planet in 1994.
  • Pia Heidenmark Cook
    Formerly IKEA
    Pia Heidenmark Cook was named top 10 female leaders in sustainability by WBCSD in 2018, and top 5 influencers on climate change agenda by the Climate Group, as well as top 100 climate influencers on Twitter in 2020.
    Pia Heidenmark Cook today enjoys a portfolio career, dividing her time between board, advisory and keynote speaking roles mainly across Europe and North America. She is serving as non-executive director on boards across for-profit and non-profit organizations in healthcare, materials innovation, restaurants, and hospitality sectors. She advises a few professional services and private equity firms on sustainability, and she is also a frequent keynote speaker/lecturer on sustainability and business transformation at e.g., Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, INSEAD, Boards Impact Forum and ESG/Climate Competent Boards' Executive Training in addition to a wide variety of corporate events.
    Pia held the position of Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) at IKEA/Ingka Group between 2017-2021, and served as senior advisor post leaving the company.
  • Dr Joachim H.Spangenberg
    SERI Germany
    Joachim Spangenberg studied biology in Cologne, ecology in Essen and did his PhD in economics in Bremen. He has been professionally working in sustainability and biodiversity research for more than 30 years, and voluntarily in environment and nature conservation, in scientific policy advice (most recently as co-author of the Global Assessment of IPBES) and in scientific professional organisations.
  • Prof. Joan Martinez-Alier
    Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
    Joan Martinez Alier is a Catalan economist, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has made important contributions in ecological economics and political ecology, which he synthesised in his work on environmentalism of the poor.
  • Prof. Arild Vatn
    Norwegian University of Life Sciences
    Arild Vatn is an institutional and ecological economist and professor emeritus at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU. He specializes in environmental governance and policy processes. Vatn is a former Vice President and President of the European Society of Ecological Economics. He has lead the research program 'Environment 2015' at the Research Council of Norway and a series of prominent PhD summer schools in ecological economics and environmental governance at various European universities and NMBU between 2006 and 2014. He has lead the NMBU research committee and been member of several other committees at NMBU and nationally including the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT). He received the NMBU research prize in 2002 - the second time it was awarded. He has also received international recognition for his contributions to his field, including the Thorstein Veblen prize in 2007 and the Kenneth Boulding Award in 2016. Vatn has received several prizes for his teaching and has lead the NMBU's Master program in International Environment Studies. He was a coordinating lead author of the UN Nature Panel's (IPBES) 'Value Assessment' published in 2022.
  • Prof. Erik Dietzenbacher
    University of Groningen
    Erik Dietzenbacher is Full Professor of Interindustry Economics at the University of Groningen. He was the project coordinator of the World Input-Output Database, funded by the EU in its 7th Framework Programme. He is former President of the International Input-Output Association, has published fifteen books and more than hundred scientific articles, and has won several international awards and prizes.
  • Prof. Dave Elliott
    The Open University
    Dave Elliott is an emeritus professor of technology policy at the Open University, UK, where he has pioneered courses and research in renewable-energy policy and technological innovation. Since retirement he has devoted himself to teaching on a range of MSc courses on energy around the UK and writing books such as the IOP ebook Renewables: a Review of Sustainable Energy Supply Options. Dave is a physicist by training and worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority before turning his attention to renewable energy.
  • Dr Marco Lambertini
    Director General of WWF International
    Marco Lambertini became Director General of WWF International in April 2014, to drive the achievement of the global conservation organization's critical mission to save life on Earth and to lead the secretariat team based in Gland, Switzerland.
    With 35 years of conservation leadership, Marco Lambertini began his association with WWF as a youth volunteer growing up in his native Italy. Prior to joining WWF, he served as Chief Executive of BirdLife International. That role saw him broaden BirdLife's global reach and relevance, and develop decentralized structures for most effective global conservation impact. He managed a highly decentralized secretariat, overseeing a global partnership of over 120 civil society organizations based in countries and territories in all continents.
  • Dr Stanislav Shmelev
    Environment Europe, UK
    Doctor Stanislav Shmelev is an ecological economist based in Oxford holding a PhD in Ecological Economics and Mathematical Methods (2003) supported by a prestigious European Commission PhD Fellowship. A recipient of the LEAD Europe Fellowship (2007), and Executive MBA from the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University Stern School of Business and HEC Paris, he has been employed as a Senior Researcher at Oxford University and was named one in top four most promising young economists in the world by the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Handelsblatt Newspaper (2014).
    Stanislav is the founder and executive director at Environment Europe Foundationand the founder and CEO at Environment Europe Ltd, where he has founded a unique executive education programme in ecological economics and sustainability that trained UNEP, UNDP, IUCN, OECD, GGGI, ministerial staff and academics from 60 countries.
    In his career spanning 20 years, he has focused on the new interdisciplinary science of ecological economics addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change and renewable energy, macroeconomic sustainability and sustainability assessment, urban sustainability, circular economy, ecosystems and biodiversity. His most important contributions included innovative sustainability assessment methods for countries going beyond GDP, new approaches to benchmark global cities on their smart and sustainable performance, new multidimensional approaches to the assessment of ecosystems and biodiversity, macroeconometric modelling and the evidence-based policy assessment, multidimensional assessment of renewable energy alternatives and decarbonisation strategies, multidimensional LCA models of circular economy at a regional scale and corporate sustainability.
    Stanislav Shmelev is the author and editor of several bestselling volumes: 'Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice' (Springer, 2012) and 'Green Economy Reader' (Springer, 2017) and 'Sustainability Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach' (2012) as well as 'Sustainable Cities Reimagined (Palgrave, 2019).

  • Prof. Victoria Hurth
    Plymouth University
    Victoria Hurth works at the intersect of academia and hands-on business to help companies transition to be drivers of long-term wellbeing for all (sustainability). Victoria focuses on five core pillars of organizations: purpose, governance, marketing, leadership and culture. She has 25 years' experience in marketing, management and sustainability, having previously worked for 3M and Accenture with companies including Marks and Spencer and Cancer Research and developing theory as a full time Associate Professor of Sustainable Business and Marketing. Victoria is currently Technical Author for the first national standard specifying the Worldviews, Principles and Behaviours of Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808).
  • Kevin Conrad
    Ambassador of Coalition for Rainforest Nations, USA
    Kevin Conrad is executive director for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, an
    intergovernmental initiative which seeks to better align market incentives with
    sustainable outcomes related to tropical forests. With a Secretariat at Columbia University, the Coalition facilitates the development of proactive strategies toward environmentally sustainable economic growth. Mr. Conrad has advised governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific related to sustainable development, economic reform, and investment incentive programs. He also has extensive business investment and operational experience within developing nations. Further, Mr. Conrad has advised
    international corporations, academic institutions and international agencies
    related to global strategy, policy development and effective execution.
    Presently on faculty at the School for International and Public Affairs at
    Columbia University, Mr. Conrad earned a B.S. from the University of Southern
    California and has advanced degrees from the London Business School and
    Columbia Business School. Kevin is the graduate of the Environment Europe Foundation programme and came to lecture on economic frameworks in conservation.
  • Dr Stanislava Boskovic
    Imperial College London, UK
    Stanislava Boskovic joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, in 2017 as a visiting academic. She is currently involved as a Research Associate in two European Union's funded multidisciplinary projects, euPOLIS and HEART, focused on improvement of Public Health and Wellbeing in cities. Both projects aim to improve urban resilience through interventions based on integrated systemic design and modelling for assessment of NBS infrastructure. Stanislava is also part of Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation, Water Systems Integration (WSI) research group and is involved in SAPID research project.
    She has a Doctorate in Architecture from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (Universita' della Svizzera Italiana - USI), Switzerland. Stanislava has struck an optimal balance between her academic and practical skills, having an in-depth understanding of both theory and the challenges of successfully delivering a project. Her interdisciplinary background and experience of working on various international projects enables her to bring a unique and highly qualitative perspective to new projects.
  • Prof. Herbert Girardet
    The club of Rome & World Future Council
    Since the 1980s Herbert has been working as a cultural and urban ecologist – as a writer, film maker, and as an international consultant. In 2007 he was co-founder of the World Future Council and, until 2012, he was its Director of Programmes. He has worked as a consultant to UN-Habitat and UNEP. He has developed sustainability strategies for major cities such as London, Vienna and Bristol. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior adviser to the Riyadh-based Saudi Sustainability Initiative. In 2003 he was inaugural 'Thinker in Residence' in Adelaide, developing sustainable development strategies for South Australia that have been fully implemented.
    At the Rio Earth Summit, 1992, he was a recipient of a UN 'Global 500 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievements'. He is visiting professor at University of the West of England. From 1996 to 2008 he was chairman of the Schumacher Society, UK, and founder-editor of the Schumacher Briefings. He is an honorary fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects, a patron of the Soil Association, UK, a trustee of Resurgence/ Ecologist, and of Artists Project Earth.
    Herbert is author and co-author of 13 factual books, including: BLUEPRINT FOR A GREEN PLANET, 1986 (Dorling Kindersley); EARTHRISE – How we can heal our injured planet, 1992 (Paladin); THE GAIA ATLAS OF CITIES, 1992 and 1996 (Gaia Books); CITIES, PEOPLE, PLANET – Urban Development and Climate Change, 2004 and 2008 (Wiley); SHAPING OUR FUTURE – Creating the World Future Council, 2005 (Green Books); SURVIVING THE CENTURY – Facing Climate Change and other Global Challenges, 2008 (Earthscan); A RENEWABLE WORLD – Energy, Ecology, Equality, 2009 (Green Books): CREATING REGENERATIVE CITIES, 2015 (Routledge). Most of his books have also come out in foreign language editions. He has also written various reports and chapters for other books.
  • Prof. Irina Shmeleva
    Institute of Sustainable Development Strategies
  • Prof. Robert Costanza
    University College London
    Dr. Robert Costanza is a professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL. He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and founding editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics. He is founding editor-in-chief of Solutions a unique hybrid academic/popular journal and editor in chief of The Anthropocene Review. He is the author or co-author of over 600 scientific papers and 28 books. His work has been cited more than 130,000 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 135.
  • Marcello Palazzi
    Founder, B-Lab Europe
    Marcello is a serial entrepreneur for human progress. Following 11 years as co-head of his international family business in environmental technologies from Italy and the UK in the 80s and early 90s, he founded Progressio Foundation, which has completed 300 projects in 30 countries with dozens of partners under his leadership, in pursuit of the 'civic economy', 'civic enterprise' and 'civic innovation', which Palazzi wrote about in 1990 in a book which has proved prescient, predicting the rise of CSR, sustainability, public-private partnerships, ethical investments, social enterprise and other forms of a more 'integrative' economy and enterprise. From 2014 to 2017, Marcello has been leading the B Corp movement in continental Europe from Amsterdam. He is currently the B Corps' Global Ambassador, Chairman of SIX, the worldwide social innovation exchange | www.socialinnovationexchange.org, Member of the Advisory Committee to the board at DanoneWave in the USA | www.dannon.com and remains President of Progressio Foundation.
  • Guy Janssens
    BNP Paribas Fortis
    Guy Janssens is the Head of Investment Specialists at BNP Paribas Fortis, and is responsible for managing and offering socially responsible investments (SRIs) in Belgium, such as the BNP Paribas Portfolio SRI Fund of Funds, managing a portfolio of approx 10 Bln euro. In 2022 Guy Janssons has joined the Environment Europe Foundation panel on Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Cities and Regions we held at the UN World Urban Forum.
  • Dr Robert Johnson
    President, Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York
    Rob Johnson is the President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which he co-founded with George Soros, William Janeway, and James Balsillie in 2009. From the outset, the founders envisioned INET as a globally engaged network that could lead the evolution of economic thought toward the interest of people and the planet. For over a decade Johnson has convened global initiatives with the greatest economic minds of our time, including conferences around the world, from Bretton Woods to Hong Kong; the Commission on Global Economic Transformation, in partnership with academics, business leaders, policymakers, and NGOs; the Young Scholars Initiative; new economic thinking curricula and online courses with leading scholars like Michael Sandel and Perry Mehrling; and groundbreaking research projects that challenge economic orthodoxy.
    In 2022 Rob took part in the Environment Europe Foundation panel on Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainable Cities and Regions at the United Nations World Urban Forum.
  • Prof. Cary Krosinsky
    NYU Stern
    Cary Krosinsky teaches sustainable investment at Yale, NYU Stern and Brown. His first book Sustainable Finance, The Art of Long Term Performance was published in 2008 Nick Robins. He is a Co-Founder and Director of the Sustainable Finance Institute, which hosted its first event on the Future of Sustainable Finance in China at Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen in January 2019, featuring leading investors with emerging investment solutions across asset class, many of whom are profiled in this upcoming new book. Cary is also Co-Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, its parent Investor Watch and was a member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel appointed by Governor Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli 2018-19 leading to the fund's $20B Climate Action Plan, and author/co-author of many previous papers including for the China-UK Green Finance Taskforce, for the UNEP Inquiry on the Value of Everything and for PRI in 2015 developing a framework for asset owners on climate change strategy.
  • Royston Braganza
    CEO of Grameen Capital
    Royston joined Grameen Capital in 2007 to launch the organization as CEO. He currently oversees all aspects of operations in India. Grameen Capital is a collaboration between Grameen Foundation USA, IFMR Trust and Citigroup, is a first of its kind social business enabling Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) develop wider access to the capital markets. Grameen Capital is part of the global Grameen family of companies, the flagship of which is the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.
  • Tadashi Matsumoto
    OECD
    Tadashi Matsumoto is the Head of the Sustainable Development and Global Relations Unit at the OECD. He leads OECD's work on sustainable urban development and manages the global relations at the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division. He provides strategic leadership and oversees the research and analysis on topics related to the zero-carbon transition in cities, a territorial approach to SDGs, urban green growth, energy efficiency in buildings, urban resilience and national urban policies. In 2022 we have invited Tadashi to speak on Environment Europe Foundation panel at the UN World Urban Forum in Katowice on Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Cities and Regions in 2022.
  • Maud Lelievre
    IUCN
    A graduate in political science and a lawyer specializing in environmental law, Maud Lelièvre defended environmental cases at the beginning of her professional career, such as the Erika oil spill (1999) and various international cases, notably in Africa. Committed during her 20-year career to the protection of the environment, she has participated in various COP Biodiversity and international negotiations in this field. General delegate of an international association of green cities, she designs programs to help preserve nature. Maud has taken part in Environment Europe Foundation panel on Multidimensional Assessment of Cities and Regions that we were invited to organize at the UN World Urban Forum in Katowice in 2022.
  • Prof. Dhiru Thadani
    ISOCARP
    Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA is an architect and urbanist. Since its formation in 1993, Dhiru has been a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and served as Task Force Chair and Board Member from 1997 to 2013. In 2015 he was appointed to the inaugural CNU College of Fellows, and received the International Society of City and Regional Planners' Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the recipient of the 2011 Seaside Prize, an award given for significant contributions to the quality and character of communities. In 2001 he was a Knight Foundation Community Builder Fellow.
    Dhiru is the author of The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary, published by Rizzoli in 2010, and co-editor of Leon Krier: The Architecture of Community published by Island Press in 2009. Thadani's latest endeavor, Visions of Seaside: Foundations / Evolution / Imagination / Built & Unbuilt Architecture, was published by Rizzoli in September 2013.
  • Prof. Robert G. Eccles
    Professor, Said Business School
    Robert is the world's foremost expert on integrated reporting and a leader on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies. He was previously a tenured Professor and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.
    He is the Founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). He has recently joined the board of Mistra Centre for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) in Sweden. Bob is also on the Advisory Board of the JANA Impact Capital Fund.
    In 2011, Bob was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, for his extensive, positive contribution to building trust in business, and in 2014 and 2015 he was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Bob is the award-winning author of a dozen books, including seminal works on integrated reporting, sustainability, and the role of business in society.
Our Alumni
  • Camilo Garzon
    Colombia
    2019 Spring School
  • Daphne Gondolehar
    Germany
    2019 Spring School
  • Deyshawn Mozer
    Switzerland
    2018 Summer School
  • Eldbjork Blickra Vea
    Denmark
    2017 Summer School
  • Hrönn Hrafnsdóttir
    Iceland
    2019 Spring School
  • Joanna Heintges
    Germany
    2018 Summer School
  • John Hoag
    USA
    2018 Summer School
  • Luiza Hoxhaj
    Albania
    2018 Summer School
  • David Sinclair
    New Zealand
    2018 Summer School
  • Cristina Chaminade
    Sweden
    2016 Summer School
  • Renato Armelin
    Brazil
    2016 Summer School
  • Emily Stebbings
    UK
    2017
  • Pavol Siroky
    Slovakia
    2017 Summer School
  • Anila Tanku
    Albania
    2017 Summer School
  • Martha Baxter
    France
    2017 Summer School
  • Albert Osei-Owusu
    Denmark
  • Annelies Sewell
    Netherlands
  • Bei Zhang
    China
  • Christian Weise
    Germany
  • Goran Sekulic
    Serbia
  • Meaghan Eastwood
    Canada
  • Phobe Stevens
    Canada
  • Rasikapriyaa Srirama
    India
  • Sarah Sannen
    Austrlia
  • Samuel Bliss
    USA
    2014 Summer School, St Hilda's College
  • David Merlaut
    France
    2014 Summer School, St Hilda's College
  • Diana Vela Almeda
    Canada
    2014 Summer School, St Hilda's College
  • Benjamin Lopez-Ortiz
    Mexico
    2014 Oxford Summer School, St Hilda's College
  • Fabian Leonhardt
    Germany
    2013 Oxford Summer School, Balliol College
  • Sandra Averous Monnery
    France
    2013 Oxford Summer School, Balliol College
Past Education Forum
Find out more information about our past education forum
Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics 2019
Economy-environment interactions, inter-sectoral flows of matter and energy, more socially equitable and environmentally friendly decisions
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2018
Green Economy for Smart and Sustainable Cities: Economics, Ecosystems and Policy
Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics 2018
Green Economy for Countries, Cities and Regions: Ecosystems, Economy, Policy
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2017
Green Economy: Ecosystems, Economy, Policy
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2016
Green Economy, Environmental Policy and Sustainability Assessment
Oxford Winter School in Ecological Economics 2015
Cutting edge methods and policy applications in ecological economics
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2015
Policies and Innovation for a Green Economy
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2014
Ecological Economics: an interdisciplinary filed that emerged in response to global sustainability crisis
Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2013
Industrial ecology, multiple criteria decision making and new tools for measuring progress
MSc Thesis Supervision
Visiting Professorship and Teaching Appointments
2022
2022
Direct of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the University of Torino, Italy
2022
2022
Direct of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, France
2018
2018
Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Lecturer at University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2016
2016
Director of Environment Europe acted as a guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK
2015
2015
Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the
Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan and delivered a 32 hour course in Ecological Economics for the MSc and PhD students


Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Colombia and delivered a 32 hour course in Ecological Economics to the large audience of over 50 students: economists, ecologists, policy makers and architects
2013
2013
Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, lecturing in Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development


Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the National Research University ITMO, St Petersburg, Russia, lecturing in Ecological Economic Tools and Methods and Sustainable Urban Development


Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, lecturing in Ecological Economics and Sustainability Assessment
    2012
    2012
    Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France


    Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at the Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan
    2011
    2011
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Associate, 4CMR


    Direct of Environment Europe acted as a Senior Visiting Research Associate, School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    2009
    2009
    Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at LAMSADE, Universite Paris Dauphine, France
    2008
    2008
    Director of Environment Europe acted as a Visiting Professor at C3ED, the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
    2007
    2007
    Director of Environment Europe becomes a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
    2004
    2004
    Director of Environment Europe becomes a Visiting Research Fellow of the Energy and Environment Research Unit, The Open University, UK
    Invited Lectures
    1
    Albania
    • Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability: Lessons for Albania", University of Vlore, Albania, 01.12.2017.(Keynote speaker)
    2
    Austria
    • "Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Analysis for Sustainable Development", Wirtschafts Universität Wien, 27.10.2013
    • "Ecological-Economic Modelling of the Regional Waste Management Systems", 12.12.2004, Sustainable Europe Research Institute;
    • "Global Accounting of Material Inputs to National Economies", 21.01.2004, Sustainable Europe Research Institute
    3
    Brazil
    • "Multidimensional Assessment of Progress: an Ecological Economics Perspective", UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 05.05.2015.
    • "Ecological Economics and the Green Economy: relevance for the South, in times of global change", BRIC UNEP panel, ISEE 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15.06.2012- 18.06.2012 (keynote speaker);
    4
    China
    • "Multidimensional Sustainability Benchmarking for Megacities: Moscow and Beijing in Global Context", 24.10.2016, International Forum of Capital Innovation and Synergetic Development, Beijing, China (keynote speaker)
    5
    Czech Republic
    • "Multicriteria Assessment of Sustainability at the Macro Level: Case Study of Austria", 24.05.2007, Charles University, Prague
    6
    Colombia
    • "Multidimensional Sustainability Benchmarking for Megacities", 16.08.2016, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
    • "Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice", 15.05.2015, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
    7
    Denmark
    "Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change", 8.11.2019, Aarhus University
    8
    Dubai
    • Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change", 7th Annual Middle East Smart Landscape Summit 2019, 18 - 19 March 2019, Roda Al Bustan, Dubai (keynote speaker)
    9
    France
    •"Multidmensional Sustainability Assessment", CNRS, Strasbourg, 11.11.2017
    • "Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability at the Macro Scale", CNRS, Nancy, 13.11.2017
    • "Ecological Economics and Sustainability Assessment", 13.11.2013, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines.
    • "Assessing Sustainability", 28.11.2012, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en- Yvelines
    • "Multicriteria Valuation of Ecosystems and Biodiversity", 24.11.2011, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines.
    • "The Application of Multicriteria Methods to the Problems of Sustainable Development", 7.10.2009, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique,
    • "Multicriteria Analysis of Biodiversity Compensation Schemes", 18.09.2008, DIRENPACA, Aix-en-Provence.
    • "Multicriteria Analysis of Biodiversity Compensation Schemes", 01.12.2008, Ministry of the Environment, Government of France, Paris.
    • "Measuring Progress: New MCDA Approaches for the Dynamic Assessment of Sustainability at the Macro Scale", 03.06.2009, Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris.
    10
    Germany
    • "Multidimensional Benchmarking for Smart and Sustainable Cities", UN Conference on Climate Change, COP23, Bonn 17.11.2017.
    • "Green Economy", UN Conference on Climate Change, COP23, Bonn, 17.11.2017, press conference.
    • "Multi-Critera Evaluation for Sustainable Development", WFI Dialogue on Sustainability, University of Ingolstadt, 20.11, 2014.
    • "Methods and Tools for Decision Making for Sustainable Development", WFI Dialogue on Sustainability, University of Ingolstadt, 22.11.2013.
    • "Ecological Economics & Sustainability Assessment", Oikos Winter School, University of Witten Herdeke, Witten, 5.11.2012.
    • "Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice", Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Berlin, 21.10.2011.
    • "Methodological power of environmentally extended input-output analysis", International Workshop on "Green New Deal" Projects and Social-Ecological Reconstruction?, Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Berlin, 21.11.2009.
    • "Ecological Economics for Sustainable Development. The Path to the Socio-Ecological Transformation", International Workshop "Für eine neue Alternative. Herausforderungen einer sozialökologischen Transformation", Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Berlin, 30.06.2007.
    11
    Hungary
    • "Ecological Economics", UNDP Summer School, CEU, Budapest, 4.07.2012.
    • "Sustainability Assessment", UNDP Summer School, CEU, Budapest, 11.07.2011.
    12
    Hong Kong
    • "Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis: Sustainability of the UK', INET, Hong Kong 15.04.2013.
    13
    India
    • "Economic, Environmental and Social Aspects of the Development of Modern Russia: Multicriteria Analysis", 16.12.2006, Panel Discussion: Growth and Sustainability – Paradox or Compatibility for the BRICS? ISEE Biennial Conference "Ecological Sustainability and Human Well-Being", Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
    14
    Japan
    • "Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change", 17.10.2019, University of Tokyo
    15
    Kazakhstan
    • "Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Programmes in Ecology", Kazakh National University, Almaty, 15.06.2018.
    • "Renewable Energy Strategies: the UK Experience", Future Energy Forum, Astana Expo, 21.07.2017 (keynote);
    • "Ecological Economics: A Systems Perspective", Kazakh National University, Almaty, 2.12.2013.
    • "Ecological Economics: Methods and Applications", Kazakh National University, Almaty, 12.03.2012.
    • "Ecological Economics: An Introduction", Kazakh National Technical University, Almaty, 23.12.2011
    16
    Luxembourg
    • "Multicriteria Evaluation of Sustainability at the Macro Level. Case Study of Austria",
    February, 2009, Eurostat.
    17
    Malaysia
    • "Multidimensional Benchmarking for Smart and Sustainable Cities", UN World Urban Forum, Kuala Lumpur, 05.02.2018 (panel convener).
    • "Sustainability Assessment for Asian, Latin American, and European Countries', Sustainability Symposium"Sustainability and Development Challenges in the Asian Region", Monash University, Kuala Lumpur, 24 October 2012 (keynote speaker);
    18
    The Netherlands
    • "Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change: a New Perspective from Ecological Economics", Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Rethinking Economics, 18.01.2019 (keynote speaker)
    • "Multi-Criteria Assessment of Sustainability at the Macro Level: Economic, Environmental and Social Aspects of the Development of Modern Russia", 01.09.2006, Free University of Amsterdam.
    19
    Norway
    • "Sustainability of Russia: A Multidimensional Analysis", 01.12.2006, Statistics Norway, Oslo
    • Multidimensional Assessment of Progress for Sustainability at the Macro Scale, 10.02.2023, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
    20
    Poland
    • Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change", British Pavilion, UN Conference on Climate Change, COP23, 13.02.2018, Katowice.
    21
    Russia
    • "Cities, Ecosystems and Climate Change", 20.12.2018, Union of Architects, St Petersburg.
    • "Ecological Economics for a Green City', 23.06.2015, Taiga Art Centre, St Petersburg.
    • "Sustainable Development in Brazil, Russia, India and China: a Dynamic Perspective', 25.02.2014, European University in St Petersburg.
    • "Ecological Economics: Methods and Tools", 19.12.2013, National Research University ITMO, St Petersburg.
    • "Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice", 20.03.2012 European University in St Petersburg.
    • "Ecological-Economic Modelling of Sustainable Regional Waste Management Systems", 25.02.2010, Faculty of International Relations, St Petersburg State University.
    • "Ecological Economics. An Introduction", 17.09.2009, Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University.
    • "Sustainable Development of Russia. The Multicriteria Analysis", 24.09.2009, Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University.
    • "Multi-Criteria Assessment of Sustainability of Russia", OECD Forum on "Measuring Progress", 27.09.2008, Moscow.
    • "Sustainability of Russia: Environmental, Economic and Social Aspects of Development", 26.12.2006, European University in St Petersburg.
    • "Ecological-Economic Modelling: Environmentally Extended Input-Output Models" 15.10.2001, St Petersburg State University.
    22
    Singapore
    • "Fundamentals of Ecological Economics", 05.05.2017, National University of Singapore.
    • "Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability" 17.02.2017, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
    • "Sustainability Modelling for Singapore", 03.05.2015, Singapore Sustainability Symposium.
    23
    South Korea
    "Green Tax Reform in Sweden", Green Growth Knowledge Partnership 7th Annual Conference, 22.10.2019, Seoul
    24
    Spain
    • "State of the Art in Sustainability Research", 07.11.2013, La Laguna University,
    Tenerife.
    25
    Switzerland
    • 'Ecological Economics: Cities, Ecosystems and Multidimensional Assessment of Progress", 14.11.2018, University of St Gallen.
    • "Multidimensional Assessment of Progress", World Resources Forum 2017, Geneva.
    • "Multi-criteria analysis of biodiversity compensation schemes", 20.05.2009, IUCN, Gland.
    • "Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development", 20.11.2007, University of Geneva.
    26
    United Kingdom
    • "Ecological Economics: The Middle Way", Royal College of Art, London, 22.10.2013.
    • "Sustainability Assessment for European, Asian and Latin American Countries', EBRD, London, 12.11.2012.
    • 'Ecological Economics: Practical Applications', 15.11.2011, University of Cambridge.
    • 'Ecological Economics: Concepts and Methods', 08.11.2011, University of Cambridge.
    • "Ecological Economics: Sustainability in Practice", 07.09.2011, 4CMR, University of Cambridge.
    • "Ecological Economics", 31.08.2010, University of Buckingham.
    • "Ecological Economics. An Introduction", 12.02.2009, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
    • "Ecological Economics. An Introduction", 16.12.2009, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey.
    • "Ecological Economics. An Introduction", 20.10.2008, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
    • "Ecological Economics. An Introduction", 15.10.2007, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
    • "Sustainability of Russia: A Dynamic Multidimensional Analysis", 10.10.2006, St Anthony's College and Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
    • "Economic Economics: Interdisciplinary Science for Sustainable Development", 02.- 08.2006, University of Buckingham.
    • "Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: Methodology and Applications", 27.10.2005, University of York.
    • "Economic Valuation of Biodiversity in the Far East of Russia", 26.10.2005, University of Gloucestershire.
    • "Ecological-Economic Aspects of the Development of Modern Russia", 11.10.2005, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
    • "Energy-Environment-Economy Modelling of the Development of Russia", 09.02.2005, Cambridge University.
    • "Environmental-Economic Modelling and Energy Choices in Russia", 06.10.2004, The Open University.
    • "Environmental and Economic Aspects of the Development of Modern Russia", 06.05.2004, University of York.
    • "Ecological-Economic Modelling of the Regional Waste Manageement Systems", 15.05.2002, University of Gloucestershire.
    • "Ecological-Economic Modelling of the Waste Management Systems" and "Specially Protected Natural Areas of Russia", 12.02.2004, Schumacher College.
    27
    USA
    • "Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment for Global Cities", 18.12.2017, George Washington University, Washington DC
    • "Multidimensional Assessment of Sustainability: from Urban to National", 13.12.2017, University of Maryland
    • "Multidimensional Sustainability Benchmarking for Megacities", 05.06.2017, George Washington University, Washington DC
    • 'Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment' 05.06.2015, Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York
    • 'Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment', 03.06.2015, Princeton University
    • 'Assessing Sustainability', 02.06.2015, George Washington University, Washington DC