Ian Bateman


Ian Bateman OBE FRSA FRSB is a Professor of Environmental Economics at the at the University of Exeter. He is a member of the Natural Capital Committee and Chief Editor of the journal "Environmental and Resource Economics". He was formerly a member of the Defra Science Advisory Council, and Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment.
He was educated at Handsworth Grammar School, the University of Birmingham, the University of Manchester, and the University of Nottingham. He was the Principal Investigator of the : and of the . He is also Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics in both the University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand and at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He was Head of Economics for the UK from 2009-2011.

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Ian Bateman was appointed an OBE for services to environmental science and policy 2013 and he also received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for 2011-2016.

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