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Professor Giles Atkinson joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, as its Acting Director, in September 2024. He had previously been an Associate of the Institute since its inception, and joined LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment in January 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giles is also a theme lead for the Protecting and Enhancing Nature and Biodiversity<\/a> theme at the Global School of Sustainability at LSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Giles is an environmental economist with over thirty-two years’ professional experience in academia. His specialist expertise focuses on two broad areas: sustainability economics and economic appraisal of environmental policies. In the former, his work has focused in particular on the theory and practice of metrics of sustainable development, especially those based on wealth accounting and natural capital accounting. In the latter, this research has focused recently on the economic impacts of chemical use and, in particular, the economic evidence based that is needed for regulating chemicals in policy regimes such as UK\/ EU REACH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giles has been a member of a wide-range of environmental policy advisory bodies over his career. This has included membership of the: UK Natural Capital Committee; Policy and Technical Experts Committee for the World Bank’s WAVES Partnership (Wealth Accounting for the Valuation of Ecosystem Services); and the Advisory Board of UNEP’s TEEB Review (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). He is currently a member of the expert body that is tasked with evaluating UK restrictions and authorisations of chemical use under UK REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n