Phoebe Koundouri#
| Membership Number: | 6273 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.aueb.gr/en/faculty_page/koundouri-phoebe |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5979-6128 |
| Twitter: | @pkoundouri |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/Prof.Koundouri/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-dr-phoebe-koundouri-55a90627/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Chair World Council of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists Associations (WCEREA)
- 2022 - present Chair United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Global Climate Hub
- 2022 - present Research Professor Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark – DTU
- 2021 - 2023 President European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
- 2020 - present Co-Chair United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Europe
- 2020 - present Co-Chair, SDSN European Green Deal Senior Working Group & Commissioner, The Lancet COVID19 Commission; Co-Chair “Jobs-based Green Recovery” Task Force
- 2020 - present Director Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) at ATHENA Information Technology Research Center
- 2018 - 2021 Chair Scientific Advisory Board European Forest Institute (Vice-Chair 2018-2019; Chair 2020-2021)
- 2017 - present Co-Chair United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Greece (SDSN Greece)
- 2017 - present Founder and Scientific Director Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES), Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business
- 2015 - present Affiliated Professor at ATHENA Information Technology Research Center
- 2006 - present Professor in Economic Theory and Policy, School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
- 2000 - 2005 Lecturer A in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK; Lecturer B (with tenure) in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK
- 1999 - 2000 Affiliated Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University College London, University of London, UK
- 1996 - 1999, College Lecturer in Economic and Social Statistics, Department of Economics; Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Blue growth
- Systems innovation
- Smart water systems
- Innovation acceleration and commercialization
- Economics of wellbeing and happiness
- Ecosystem services valuation
- Natural resource-food-energy Nexus
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Circular economy
- Sustainable development
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Academia Europaea Representative to S20 Task Force 2 on Bioeconomy of the G20 Heads of States
- 2024 Member of the EIB Women Climate Leaders Network
- 2024 Coordinating Author for World Ocean Assessment III, Section 5B, Chapter 3: Human Wellbeing
- 2024 Co - chair of the Task Force on Environment, Sustainability and Climate (TFESC), Academia Europaea
- 2023 Academy of Athens Excellence in Science Award 2023 for contribution to the advancement of the Science of the Marine Environment
- 2023 Fellow European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2023 - present Member of the Leadership Council and Networks Strategy Council of the UNSDSN.
- 2023 - present Member of EHRA Science Panel of Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Atlantic Council
- 2023 - present Μember of the Committee of Experts of the CLIMATTICA Network
- 2023 - present Member of the Working Group on Programmes of Measures and Socio-Economic Analysis (WG POMESA) - part of the Common Implementation Strategy of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
- 2023 - present Member of the WWF European Policy Office Working Group on greenwashing in the finance sector
- 2022 - present Invited member of the Program on Fraternal Economy of Integral and Sustainable Development of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
- 2022 - present Member of the Special Scientific Committee on Climate Change of the Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy
- 2022 - present Member of the Spinger Nature European Research Advisory Council
- 2022 - present Panel Member and Reviewer: ERC Synergy Grants, ERC Advanced Grants, ERC Consolidate Grants, ERC Starting Grants
- 2022 - present Member of the WE Policy Advisory Committee (WE PAC)
- 2022 Best Poster Award: “Digital agricultural management tools for efficient and integrated policy-making” at the 1st International Electronic Conference on Land (IECL) —Towards Land System Science, 17-19 May 2022.
- 2022 - present Member of the IAP’s Development and Programme Committees on Academy Capacity Building
- 2022 - present EJWP Programme AmbassadorEuropean Junior Water Programme (EJWP)
- 2022 - present Fellow and Trustee, World Academy of Art and Science
- 2022 - present Fellow of the Academia Europae
- 2022 - present Nominator for the Blue Planet Prize
- 2022 Best Applied Paper for 2021: The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) “Open Access in Scientific Information: Sustainability Model and Business Plan for the Infrastructure and Organization of OpenAIRE”
- 2022 European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission, in a professional capacity representing the European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists
- 2021 - present Member of the Nominating Committee for the Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 2021 - present Fellow and Trustee, World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
- 2020 Appointed in the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission
- 2020 - 2026 President (Elect-Executive-Past) European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
- 2020 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant “Smart Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems”
- 2020 - present Member Scientific Advisory Board, Open Research Europe
- 2020 - present Member of CEPR (Center for European and Policy Research) Network on Climate Change
- 2020 - present Member Prime Ministerial Committee on the 10-year Recovery and Development Plan for Greece
- 2020 - present Member Climate Change Advisory Committee, Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy (Law Νόμο 4638/2019)
- 2014 - 2015 Vice-President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
- 2010 - 2011 President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Post Bank Green Institute, Athens, Greece
- 2002 Pump-Priming Project Award, University of Reading, UK
- 1996 Peterhouse Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1996 Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society
- 1995 - 1997 Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Fees Scholarship
- 1995 - 1997 Overseas Research Student Award (ORS)
- 1991 - 1994 University of Leicester, Economics Scholarship
- 1994 Scholarship for study in British Universities, Government of Cyprus
- 1991 European Bank of Reconstruction and Development Bank Mathematics Award
