Trucost has the support of an international advisory panel of leading academics in the fields of economics and the environment. Meeting annually to review our methodology and approach, these academics lend valuable support to Trucost, helping us to retain our position as the leading provider of environmental data.
Dr. Robert Costanza (Panel Coordinator)
Director of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics and Gund Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Co-founder and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and chief editor of the Society's journal, Ecological Economics.
Emeritus Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, visiting Professor at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor of Mineral Economics at Pennsylvania State University. He was a founder of the Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources (CMER) at INSEAD.
Director of Environmental Policy Studies, Director of the Public and Urban Affairs programme and a Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He has contributed to the World Bank's Green National Accounting workshop and the US Forest Service's Ecological Stewardship programme.
Independent Environmental Commissioner for the EIR, a World Mining Commission, for the 2002 UN World Summit on Sustainable Development. He advises H.E. Emil Salim, Chairman of the Summit's PrepCom. Previously Environmental Advisor to the World Bank for 25 years.
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Research group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE). Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the aim of RESOLVE is to explore the links between lifestyles, societal values and the environment. Since 2004 Tim has been Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission and is the author of their controversial and groundbreaking report, now updated and expanded in the book Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Earthscan 2009). In addition to his academic work he is an award-winning playwright with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.
Ms. Lange is the Team Leader for Policy and Economics in the World Bank's Environment Department where she leads the department's work on environment and development. She is the principle author of "The Changing Wealth of Nations" and is leading the new Global Partnership for Ecosystem Valuation and Wealth Accounting. She joined the World Bank in 2009 from Columbia University's Earth Institute and prior to that she worked with Wassily Leontief at New York University. Over the past 25 years, Ms. Lange has pioneered the use of environmental accounting to integrate environmental concerns into macroeconomic and sectoral policy analysis in developing countries in Africa and Asia.
Professor in Economics of Sustainable Development at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Until 1998 he was Vice-President and senior economist at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. He has served on EPA's Science Advisory Board and National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, and on the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development. His work on environment and finance was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for 2000.
Director of CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment) and Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Previously a member of the UK government's Climate Change Impacts Review Group.
Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Vice-President of the Council of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science and Chair of Environment Canada's Science and Technology Advisory Board. Previously Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environmental Sciences and Standards Division with the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy.