Serban Scrieciu
Programme Officer (Climate Economics)

Responsibilities

  • Managing a project on developing and applying a Multi-Criteria Analysis approach to the economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation

  • Research and assess the developmental impacts of climate policies

  • Assisting developing country government with the implementation of effective climate policies

  • Promote climate change mitigation policies that are economically efficient, environmentally effective and socially equitable


Biography

Serban Scrieciu holds a Master's degree with distinction in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (UK), and a PhD from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester (UK).

He is currently a Project Manager at the Energy Branch of UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, where he helps design, implement, and evaluate a guiding framework for assessing the benefits and costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation policies by developing and adopting a Multi-Criteria Analysis approach to the climate problem. His focus is on climate economics, but within an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary standpoint that accounts for energy-environment-economy interactions, system dynamics, institutional change, ethics, risk and uncertainty.

Prior to UNEP, Serban has been working for several years in the academia, with the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester, UK. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reports, and his research interests include new economics and the implications for more sustainable development pathways; climate change mitigation, adaptation and development synergies and trade-offs; and land-use change and sustainability.

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+33 (0)1 44 37 76 26

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+33 (0)1 44 37 14 74

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