Ian Bateman

Position: Professor, University of Exeter

Ian Bateman is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs.

Ian is Co-Director (with Professor Brett Day) of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), a multidisciplinary team bringing together the variety of disciplines and perspectives necessary to improve policy, business and social decision making regarding the connections between the economy and the environment. LEEP is based in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School. Ian is also Principal Investigator for the The South West Partnership for Environmental and Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) is a collaborative initiative that will help deliver economic and community benefits to the South West, whilst also protecting and enhancing the area’s natural resources.

Ian is a Member of the UK Natural Capital Committee (NCC) reporting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and advising the Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC).

Previously Ian was Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and Head of Economics for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK-NEA) and led the economics component of the second phase of the UK-NEA. Ian was a member of (and the only economist on) the Defra Science Advisory Council (SAC) and a member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Strategic Programme Advisory Group which advises NERC on its research programme, a member of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Science Development Group , UK Country Representative and Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). Ian has been Principle Investigator (PI) of over 70 research grants, including the NERC Valuing Nature Network which united over 1,200 business and policy decision makers with research experts worldwide and the ESRC Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) Large Grant. He was the economics lead for the ESRC Nexus Network and is a member of the Aldersgate Group linking environmental research, policy and business.

Ian also holds Professorial and Research Fellow positions at The University of Western Australia and both the University of Lincoln and Waikato University, New Zealand. He has been or is advisor or consultant to: Defra, DfT, DoH, NICE, OECD and numerous other bodies and is Editor in Chief of the leading international journal Environmental and Resource Economics. He has written over 130 peer-reviewed journal papers (citation h-score 80) and has written or edited more than a dozen books and over 100 chapters in books. Ian was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award in 2011 and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Biology. Ian was awarded on OBE in 2013 for services to environmental science and policy. In 2021 Ian was one of only 30 people worldwide to be elected as a lifetime International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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