Phoebe Koundouri

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Phoebe Koundouri (born 1974, Cyprus) is a world-renowned environmental economics professor and global leader in sustainable development. She is listed in the 1% of most-cited women economists in the world, and she is included within the official Stanford University list of the Top 2 % of world scientists, with 15 published books and more than 500 published peer reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, research and policy reports. Professor Koundouri is an elected member of Academia Europae, in the section Economics, Business and Management Sciences and elected Member of Board of the Trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).  She is also a member of the Nominating Committee for the Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science. She is University Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business. She also teaches as a Professor at the Denmark Technical University, Department of Technology Management and Economics.   Prof. Koundouri holds MPhil and a PhD in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Cambridge. She held academic positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Reading, London School of Economics. She is the President of the  European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (EAERE), the largest scientific association in the field, with more than 1000 member institutions, from more than 55 countries. In 2020 she received the prestigious European Research Council ERC Synergy Grant. Currently, this is the biggest research project in the world on urban water systems.