Anastasios Xepapadeas is Professor Emeritus at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna. He is an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has served as Dean of the School of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and the School of Social Sciences at the University of Crete. He is a former president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and former chairman of the Board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.