Richard S. J. Tol

Dr Richard S.J. Tol MEA is a Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex, the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and CESifo. He is ranked among the top 100 economists in the world and among the top 25 most-cited climate scholars. He has well over 200 publications in learned journals. An economist and statistician, He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and climate, and is interested in integrated assessment modelling. He is an editor of Energy Economics. He has played an active role in international bodies such as the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Global Trade Analysis Project and the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment.