Professor Phoebe Koundouri
Professor
1. Professor Athens University of Economics and Business, 10434 Athens, Greece
2. President Elect European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 30175 Venice, Italy
3. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
4. co-Chair, UN SDSN Europe
5. Director EIT Climate KIC HUB Greece
Short Biography
Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is a world-renowned environmental economics professor and global leader in sustainable development. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. Prof. Koundouri is listed in the most-cited women economists in the world, with 15 published books and more than 465 published peer reviewed scientific articles, book chapters and reports.
Prof. Koundouri is University Professor at the School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, an elected fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the President-elect of the European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists for the period 2019-2025 (EAERE www.eaere.org - with more than 1200 scientific member institutions, from more than 75 different countries).
Prof. Koundouri is the Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Laboratory on Socio- Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES) https://www.dept.aueb.gr/en/ReSEES at Athens University of Economics and Business, focusing on interdisciplinary research on socio- economic and environmental systems. She is also Affiliated Professor at the ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, where she founded and scientifically directs the Sustainable Development Unit and the EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece (www.athena-innovation.gr/el/eit- climate-kic-hub-greece) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (https://eit.europa.eu), the latter focusing on accelerating technological and social innovations for use in the transition to a climate neutral economy.
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Article 8 November 2024
by
Chioma Ezeanaka and Trung Hieu Tran
Highlights of Sustainability, 2024, 3(4),
374–393.
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