Professor Susana Mourato

Susana is Professor of Environmental Economics, former Academic Director of LSE Summer School, and Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2008, where she was Head of Department from 2017-2020, having previously worked at Imperial College London. In 2021, Susana became the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research).

Much of Susana’s research has been in the area of social value measurement, testing and applying economic valuation techniques to a wide range of environmental, health and social impacts related to ecosystem services, wildlife conservation, air and water pollution, chemicals, climate change, low carbon technologies, and cultural heritage. She has also undertaken research on the links between subjective well-being and the environment, and more recently on using insights from behavioural economics to promote sustainable behaviours.

Susana has over 100 scientific publications, including papers in leading journals of her field (Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Environmental & Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Environment & Development Economics, Global Environmental Change, World Development, Environment & Planning A, Urban Studies, Energy Policy) and 4 books, including a flagship OECD book on Cost Benefit Analysis and the Environment. She has many years of experience in research, advice and policy work for research councils, government, industry, charities and international organisations.

Susana currently leads a project for the OECD evaluating the impact of chemicals on IQ, as well as projects for LSE Middle East Centre estimating preferences for climate change policies in the Gulf Region, and for water conservation in Kuwait. She sits on the Culture & Heritage Capital Advisory Board, of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

Expertise

Environmental economics; Environmental policy; Environmental valuation; Social value; Cultural economics; Life satisfaction and wellbeing; Behavioural environmental economics