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.
Dr. Robert U. Ayres
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.
Dr. Dan C. Esty
Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University with appointments in the Environment and Law Schools. He serves as Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He is the author or editor of nine books and a number of articles on the environment, and is also the co-author of a recent prize-winning book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage. Prior to taking up his current position at Yale, Professor Esty was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and served in a variety of senior positions in the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Dr. Stephen Farber
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.
Dr. Robert Goodland
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.
Dr. Tim Jackson
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.
Dr. Glenn-Marie Lange
Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Economic Analysis, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Her research focuses on economic input-output modelling and the pricing of, and accounting for, environmental resources.
Dr. Robert Repetto
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.
Dr. Kerry Turner CBE
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.
Dr. Peter Victor
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.