Environmental Economics for Development Policy: Speakers - Kirk E. Hamilton

Kirk E. Hamilton is Team Leader, Policy and Economics, Environment Department, The World Bank. Dr. Hamilton is leading the Department's research program on indicators of sustainable development and identification of poverty-environment links using household survey data.

He is one of the principal authors of the indicator publications of the Department, including Monitoring Environmental Progress, Expanding the Measure of Wealth, and Five Years after Rio: Innovations in Environmental Policy.

As a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, advising the UK government on policies for sulfur emissions reductions in the context of EU policy, Dr. Hamilton conducted extensive research and produced a range of publications on 'green' national accounts and indicators of sustainable development.

He has also served as manager of the environmental information program for Statistics Canada, and was Deputy Director of the National Accounts Division, where the responsibilities included developing a green accounting program for the government of Canada.

His degrees include a PhD in Economics and an MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, as well as a BSc (Eng.) in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen's University at Kingston.