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 ANIL
MARKANDYA is an environmental economist who has worked
in this field for over thirty years. Presently he
is a Lead
Economist at the World Bank and Professor
of Economics at Bath University.
He
graduated from the London School of Economics with
a Masters in Econometrics in 1968 and was awarded
his PhD 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, policy, 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 USA 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. Professor Markandya
has been an advisor to many national and international
organisations, including all the major development
banks, UNDP, the EU and the governments of India and
the UK.
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