Dr. Robert Ayres

Dr Robert U. Ayres is Emeritus Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, visiting Professor at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor of Mineral Economics at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Ayres joined INSEAD in 1992, becoming the first Novartis (formerly Sandoz) Chair of Management and the Environment, as well as founder of CMER (Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources).

His former positions include Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and Deputy Leader of the Technology-Economy-Society Programme, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. From 1994 -1997 he was a member of the International Advisory Board to the Wuppertal Institute, Germany.

His research has ranged from Industrial Metabolisms and Industrial Ecology, through Environmental Policy and Technology Evaluation, Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation, Environmental Economics, to Eco-restructuring.