
Professor Dr. Phoebe Koundouri
holds a PhD and MPhil in Economics and Econometrics from the
University of Cambridge (UK). She is Professor (Chair) of
Sustainable Development (Economics and Econometrics) at the
School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and
Business (Greece) and she is the elected President of the
European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource
Economists (EAERE) (with more than 1200 scientific member
institutions, from more than 75 different countries). Prof.
Koundouri is listed in the 1% of most-cited women economists
in the world, with 15 published books and more than 250
published scientific papers.
Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is also
the Founder and Scientific Director of the Research
laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
(ReSEES) at the Athens University of Economics and Business
and an affiliated Professor at the ATHENA Research and
Innovation Center (Greece) where she directs EIT Climate-KIC
Hub Greece of the European Institute of Innovation and
Technology. She is also the co-chair of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Network Greece (UN SDSN Greece),
chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International
Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy
(ICRE8) and chair of the scientific advisory board of the
European Forest Institute.
In the past, Professor Koundouri
has held academic positions at the University of Cambridge,
University College London, the University of Reading and the
London School of Economics. She acts as an advisor to the
European Commission, World Bank, EIB, EBRD, OECD, UN, NATO, WHO,
numerous national and international foundations and
organizations, as well as national governments in all five
continents. Notably she is currently member of the drafting
Priministerial Committee for 10-year development plan for
Greece, as well as in the Climate Change Committee of the
Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy. She holds a global
leadership role in the UN SDSN for European Green Deal (EGD)
implementation, Sustainable SHipping and Ports, 4-seas Blue
Growth Initiative and is leader (together with Prof. Jeff
Sachs) of the Senior Working Group on Transformation Pathways
for the implementation of EGD. She is also a member of
the CEPR (Center for European and Policy Research)
Network (RPN) on Climate Change https://cepr.org/content/cepr-rpn-climate-change-researchers and
a Commissioner of the New Lancet Commission on COVID-19 of
the Lancet and the Sustainable Development Institute of the
University of Columbia, US https://covid19commission.org/commissioners.
Since 1997, she has coordinated
more than 77 interdisciplinary research projects and has
attracted significant competitive research funding. Professor
Koundouri and her large interdisciplinary team have produced
research and policy results that have contributed to
accelerating the research commercialization for the
sustainability transition in Europe, as well as shaping
European policies. Over the last two decades, Professor
Koundouri has given keynote and public lecturers all over the
world and received various prizes for academic
excellence.



