Professor Anil Markandya graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Econometrics and a Ph.D. He has worked extensively on environmental problems from an economic viewpoint. He was a lead author for the 3rd and 4th IPCC Assessment Reports on Climate Change, a Lead Author for the 5th Assessment Report, and a contributing author for the special report on 1.5ºC. Professor Markandya was President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics from 2014-2015. Currently he is Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change in the Basque Country, Spain.