Professor Phoebe Koundouri, is a pioneer in human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for sustainable interaction between nature, society, and economy. A University of Cambridge MPhil and PhD, academic positions: Cambridge, UCL, LSE, University of Reading, now Economics Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Technical University of Denmark. She is the founder Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Aeiphoria (200 researchers involved) and she included in the Stanford University list top 2% world scientists (17 books, 650 published papers, 100 projects, 120 countries).

She is President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Chair of the World Council of Environmental Resource Economists Association, Chair of the SDSN Global Climate Hub, Co-chair of SDSN Europe (900 universities). Advisor to UN, G20, World Bank, European Commission, EIB, EBRD, OECD, WHO, Lancet COVID19 Commission, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Her scientific honors include European Research Council ERC Synergy Grant, Academy of Athens Award, elected member Academia Europae, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Trustee World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) , EAERE Fellow, EFI Fellow, member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics.