an auction mechanism. She is currently writing her dissertation, where she evaluates the
cost-efficiency of two different contract types, action-based and outcome-based contracts.
Workshop on Conservation Tenders in Developed and Developing
Countries
Status Quo, Challenges and Prospects
September 11-14, 2013, Boppard, Germany
Bio-sketches of Participants in Alphabetical Order
Irene ALVARADO QUESADA
Wageningen University, Netherlands
irene.alvaradoquesada@wur.nl
Irene Alvarado-Quesada is a PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental
Economics and Natural Resources of Wageningen University. She completed her BSc. in
Economics in the Universidad de Costa Rica. In 2008 she was granted with an APFellowship from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme to follow her MSc. in
International Development Studies in Wageningen University. Following her master
studies she started her PhD research on the ¨Development of efficient payment
mechanisms for biodiversity conservation¨. One of the objectives of her research is to
conduct a case study involving the design of a payment mechanism for a park in Mawas
forest, in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Lucie ANDELTOVA
ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany
lucie.andeltova@googlemail.com Lucie Andeltová is an agricultural economist with studies in business administration and a
Master degree in international territorial studies. She was born in Prague and attended an
Austrian school. While studying in her city of origin, she spent several semesters abroad in
Spain, South Africa and Germany. Afterwards, she joined the PhD Program of the Center
for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn. She implemented a project of
payments for environmental services in Kenya, where landowners were contracted through
Danijela BOJKOVSKI
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Danijela.Bojkovski@bf.uni-lj.si M.Sc. Danijela Bojkovski is a researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Department for
Animal Science, Ljubljana. She received her M.Sc. from Imperial College at Wye,
University of London. Her M.Sc. research work was connected with the Environmental
effects on the loss of Animal Genetic Resources in Slovenia. She is involved in the policy,
management and research work connected with the Conservation of Animal genetic
resources in Slovenia. The work includes design and preparation of annual and multiannual programs for conservation of animal genetic resources, policy recommendations,
inventory of autochthonous breeds, status and endangerment, possible ways of conserving
and studying the biological, genetic and molecular characteristics. She collaborated in
various national and few international projects concerning the Animal genetic resource
conservation. Her PhD work is connected with the Identifying cost-effective animal
genetic conservation strategies through the use of hypothetical conservation tenders.
Peter BOXALL
University of Alberta, Canada
peter.boxall@ualberta.ca
Peter is a professor in the Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology
at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the economic valuation of
environmental goods and services, both the demand and supply sides. Recent research in
his research group is leading to the design of market based instruments such as reverse
auctions and offset trading systems to encourage increased provision of ecological goods
and services from private land managers. Much of this research involves the use of
experimental economic techniques to design market based approaches that target
incentives to address specific environmental outcomes such as wetland and habitat
conservation issues.
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and Elsa CARDONA SANTOS
ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany
elsa.cardona@hotmail.com
America, Africa and Australia with United Nations agencies, universities and research
centers.
Elsa M. Cardona Santos is an environmental economist, currently starting her PhD studies
and working as a researcher at the University of Bonn, with a focus on payments for
environmental services. She was born in Mexico City, where she grew up and visited a
German school. At the age of 18 she moved to Germany to study Economics at the
University of Freiburg, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service. Afterwards,
she completed a Master Degree in Food and Resource Economics at the University of
Bonn, where she joined the Center for Development Research as a student assistant.
Thilo GLEBE
Technische Universität München, Germany
thilo.glebe@tum.de
Stephen CHAPLIN
Natural England, Great Britain
stephen.chaplin@naturalengland.org.uk Currently Principal Specialist in Natural England, leading on Common Agricultural Policy
issues, principally CAP reform and design and development of agri-environment schemes
funded from the Rural Development Regulation (Pillar 2) of the CAP. Natural England
delivers agri-environment schemes in England on behalf of Defra (Department for
Environment Food and Rural Affairs). I have spent the previous 15 years in a range of
roles related to Pillar 2 scheme delivery including undertaking and managing direct agrienvironment scheme delivery, providing policy advice on scheme review and design and
managing the evidence programme responsible for monitoring and evaluating the
environmental benefits of agri-environment scheme agreements in England. Prior to this I
completed a BSc (Hons) Agricultural Economics and PhD in Agricultural Geography.
Adam DRUCKER
Bioversity International (CGIAR), Italy
a.drucker@cgiar.org Adam Drucker is a senior (ecological) economist and head of Bioversity International’s
(CGIAR) Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity on Farm and in the Wild research
theme. He also coordinates a global program of work related to the “Economics of
Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation and Use”. Adam is particularly interested in the
development of incentive mechanisms for supporting smallholder farmers to conserve
threatened crop species/varieties and livestock breeds, both for their own use, and for the
benefit of wider society. Adam has previously held a number of positions in Latin
Thilo Glebe is a lecturer at the Technische Universität München (TUM). He holds a
Diplom in Agricultural Science from the Universitaet Goettingen, a Masters degree in
Agricultural Economics from the University of London, a PhD from the University of
Cambridge and a Habilitation from the TUM. Before his engagement at the TUM, he
worked as a research assistant for the Centre of Development Studies (University of
Wales) in India. His current research is focused on the optimal design of agrienvironmental policy. He teaches courses in agricultural trade, agricultural economics and
environmental economics.
Daniel HELLERSTEIN
USDA/Economic Research Service, U.S.A.
dhellerstein@ers.usda.gov
Daniel Hellerstein’s primary field of study is agricultural conservation programs, such as
the USDA Conservation Reserve Program. His research includes work on the on the
measurement of the amenity and environmental value of these programs, the impacts on
rural communities of program participation, and the implications of rising commodity
prices on program participation. Recent work has focused on the design of voluntary
conservation programs, with a focus on the examination of alternative auction mechanisms
using experimental economics. Daniel received his Ph.D. from the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1989, and has been at the USDA/Economic
Research Service ever since.
Antti IHO
MTT Agrifood Research Finland
antti.iho@mtt.fi Antti Iho earned his PhD on optimal phosphorus policies in crop production in 2011 from
the University of Helsinki. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley in 2012. In addition,
he was leading a project on utilizing auctions in agri-environmental policies in 2008-2011.
The project included an auction field trial conducted in Southern Finland. An article
describing the pilot is currently undergoing second round revisions for a journal.
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and Currently he is working with two topics related to market based instruments: on permit
markets with endogenous entry and on information disclosure and information rents in
agri-environmental auctions.
Kelsey JACK
Tufts University, U.S.A
kelsey.jack@tufts.edu
Kelsey Jack is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Tufts University,
a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab
at MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at Tufts, Kelsey was a post-doctoral associate at MIT,
with the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative at J-PAL. She holds a PhD from
Harvard and a BA from Princeton.
Kelsey’s research explores incentive based approaches to encourage the private provision
of public goods with a focus on the environment. She combines environmental economics,
contract theory, development economics and behavioral economics to examine individual
decision-making in settings where decisions create social externalities. Her research uses
field experiments to test economic theory in developing countries including Malawi,
Zambia, Bolivia and Indonesia.
Vijesh V. KRISHNA
University of Göttingen, Germany
vijesh.krishna@agr.uni-goettingen.de
Vijesh V. Krishna is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August University of Goettingen (Germany).
He obtained his PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, in 2007. Before joining
the current position, he worked as Production and Resource Economist at the International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, South Asia) and Post-Doctoral Fellow
at the University of California (Berkeley). His major research interests include biodiversity
economics, non-market valuation, agrarian institutions and adoption and impact
assessment of agricultural technologies in developing countries.
Jussi LANKOSKI
OECD, France
Jussi.LANKOSKI@oecd.org Dr. (environmental economics) Jussi Lankoski has conducted theoretical and empirical
analysis on agriculture – environment issues for more than 17 years in international
organisations (OECD, ECHA, and UNCTAD), government research institutes (MTT
Agrifood Research Finland) and in academia (University of Helsinki). His main research
focus has been on agri-environmental policy design and implementation, specifically on
the provision of practical and feasible guidance to policy makers on the design
characteristics of environmentally effective and cost-efficient agri-environmental policies.
He has conducted both theoretical and empirical analysis on several key environmental
issues and various types of policy instruments, including agri-environmental payments,
water quality trading, and conservation auctions.
Uwe LATACZ-LOHMANN
University of Kiel, Germany
ulatacz@agric-econ.uni-kiel.de
Uwe Latacz-Lohmann is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Kiel,
Germany, and adjunct professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University
of Western Australia. Prior to his Kiel appointment, he taught environmental economics at
Cambridge University (2000-2002) and Wye College, University of London (1995-2000).
Before joining Wye College in 1995 he spent 2 years as a visiting research in the US, first
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign followed by a year at USDA’s
Economic Research Service in Washington, D.C. His research interests are in the field of
environmental economics (with a focus on voluntary conservation contracting schemes),
production economics and farm management. He is member of the Scientific Advisory
Board on Agricultural Policy to the German Federal Government. He has advised the
British Government (DEFRA) and the Scottish Government (SEERAD) on various aspects
of agri-environmental and fishery policy.
Beria LEIMONA
Agroforestry Centre-Southeast Asia (ICRAF-SEA), Indonesia
LBeria@cgiar.org
Beria Leimona is a scientist at World Agroforestry Centre based in Southeast Asia
(ICRAF-SEA) focused on payment for environmental services and community-based
natural resource management. At ICRAF, she is designing and managing pro-poor
payment for environmental services (PES) initiatives in Asia involving international donor
organizations, regional government partners, research and civil society organizations.
Leimona was invited by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia to evaluate a
national initiative of PES in Kazakhstan and is also actively involved in analyzing and
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and evaluating PES projects in African regions. She holds an environmental system analysis
PhD from the Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands.
Krishna PRASAD PANT
Kathmandu University, Nepal
krishna.pant@ku.edu.np
Margarita MORA
Conservation International, U.S.A
mmora@conservation.org
Mr. Krishna Prasad Pant, resident of Kathmandu, Nepal, completed his Ph. D. in
agricultural economics from India in 1998. He is teaching environmental economics in
Kathmandu University as a visiting faculty for 10 years. He is also working for Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations as an agricultural policy consultant. He
is a Fellow of South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
(SANDEE). Earlier, he also served the government of Nepal as an agricultural economist
in different capacities for 20 years. His research focus is on integration of environmental
conservation with the wellbeing of rural communities in developing countries.
Margarita Mora studied Geography and Sustainable Development in Ecuador. She joined
the Conservation International’s (CI) Ecuador program from 2004 until 2007 to support
CEPF-funded initiatives in the Chocó Manabí Conservation Corridor. After this, she
earned her Master’s degree from Berlin’s Humboldt University in Integrated Natural
Resource Management, focusing on governance and institutions of conservation
agreements in northwestern Ecuador. Since 2008 she has supported the Conservation
Stewards Program (CSP) both in developing socio-economic monitoring systems and
documenting conservation agreements implementation. In 2011 she rejoined CI as CSP´s
Regional Manager for Latin America, providing technical support to CSP’s Latin America
portfolio.
Bernhard OSTERBURG
Thünen Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
bernhard.osterburg@ti.bund.de
Dipl.-Ing. agr. Bernhard Osterburg is researcher at the Department of Rural Studies of the
Thünen Institute in Braunschweig, Germany. His work focuses on policy impact
assessments, the use of resources, and environmental and natural protection.
Ina PORRAS
International Institute for Environmental Development (IIED), Great Britain
ina.porras@lied.org Dr. Ina Porras is a Costa Rican environmental economist working at IIED since 2001. Ina
has long-term experience supporting practical design of PES schemes, economic valuation
of environmental services (especially biodiversity and water); inclusion of legitimacy,
equity and social justice in economic instruments and conservation; innovative marketbased mechanisms in East Africa for soil and water conservation, capacity building and
development of training material for practitioners and business, working with local
collaborators and as a team member in multiple global consortiums, and as a board
member for the international Plan Vivo Standard.
Eeva PRIMMER
Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Eeva.Primmer@ymparisto.fi
Dr. Eeva Primmer a senior researcher of environmental and natural resource policy and
governance. She is the research coordinator of Ecosystem Services research at the Finnish
Environment Institute. She has a background in forest policy and has studied
organizational competencies and networks as well as professional practices and norms in
integrating biodiversity conservation and forestry. Currently, her research is largely
focused on ecosystem services, specializing in those institutions, practices and actors that
condition ecosystem service production and conservation. She has conducted her research
mostly in collaborative projects in Finland and in the European Union and also through
international research collaboration.
John ROLFE
Central Queensland University, Australia
j.rolfe@cqu.edu.au
John Rolfe is a resource economist who is a professor in the Faculty of Arts, Business,
Informatics and Education of the CQ University at Rockhampton. He is a member of the
Centre for Environmental Management at the University where he leads the
Environmental Economics program. John has a number of research interests, but
specializes in non-market valuation, regional development, environmental, resource and
agricultural economic issues, and economic impact assessment in regional areas. He has
led more than 30 major research projects in the past 10 years, and has 115 refereed
publications in the form of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews and refereed
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and conference papers. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for a major applied economics
journal, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has a
background in agriculture and operated a cattle property in the Central Queensland region
for a number of years.
Oscar SANCHEZ
National Fund for Forest Financing (FONAFIFO), Costa Rica
osanchez@fonafifo.go.cr Panel on Climate Change, and as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers
in the White House. He likes music and fishing.
Klaus STERN
European Court of Auditors, Brussels
Klaus.STERN@eca.europa.eu
Oscar Sánchez Chaves is the director of Payments for Environmental Services at the
National Fund for Forest Financing (FONAFIFO) in Costa Rica since 1997. Prior to that,
he was responsible for the programs of reforestation and forestry incentives. He is author
of several publications related to forestry incentives and programs of payments for
environmental services. He is a Forestry Engineer, graduated from the National
Autonomous University of Costa Rica.
Klaus Stern, holding a doctorate in agricultural sciences, with a speciality in environmental
protection and rural development, has been an auditor at the European Court of Auditors
since 2008. His main focus is on performance audits of the EU’s rural development policy.
Before this, he worked as a National Expert in the Commission, DG Environment, mainly
on the approval of Rural Development Programmes, and he has several years of
experience in the German agricultural and environmental administration. In this function
he was responsible for the management of the agri-environmental programme and for the
coordination of cross compliance checks in the German federal State of Hessen.
Steven SCHILIZZI
University of Western Australia, Australia
Steven.Schilizzi@uwa.edu.au
Nora VOGT
University of Göttingen, Germany
nora.vogt@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de Steven Schilizzi is an associate professor at the School of Agricultural & Resource
Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth, where he has taught and carried out
research in agricultural and environmental economics since 1996. He obtained his PhD in
energy economics in Paris from the Ecole Normale Superieure and the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He worked 12 years with the National Institute for
Agricultural Research in Montpellier, France. His current research includes conservation
auctions, equity/fairness in economic analysis, and bio-economic systems, with a focus on
experimental and behavioural economics. He has also carried out research in several
developing countries, namely Vietnam.
Nora Vogt holds degrees in international relations and international economics from the
universities of Göttingen, Bordeaux and Dresden. After having worked at UNESCO's
Natural Sciences Sector during the launch of the International Year of Biodiversity in
2010, she started a PhD thesis in the field of market-based environmental instruments in
Göttingen. Using experimental economics, Nora analyses the influence of trust and
reciprocity of trust on market behaviour and relationships, and the role of reputation as an
incentive device in conservation tenders. After spending a research period at CSIRO,
Ecosystem Sciences, she currently works as research assistant to the Chair of Economic
Policy in Göttingen.
Jason SHOGREN
University of Wyoming, U.S.A
jramses@uwyo.edu
Hans-Joachim WEIGEL
Thünen Institut, Germany
hans.weigel@vti.bund.de Jason Shogren is the Stroock Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and
Management in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming,
his alma mater. He works on the economics of environmental and natural resource policy.
Shogren is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and has served
as professor to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, a lead author for the Intergovernmental
Hans-Joachim Weigel (born 1951) is a plant biologist and since 1981 he has been involved
in experimental research on plant ecology topics related to air and soil pollutant stress,
climate change effects, agroecology and biodiversity. He has been working at the
Universities of Giessen and Düsseldorf and in the department of Production- and
Ecotoxicology at the former Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL), Braunschweig.
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and Since 1992 he has been director of the departments of Production- and Ecotoxicology and
of Agroecology of the FAL. He was president of the FAL in 2006-2007. Currently he is
director of the department of Biodiversity of the Thünen Institute (TI), Braunschweig. He
holds a professorship at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
Ben WHITE
University of Western Australia, Australia
benedict.white@uwa.edu.au Ben White is professor in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the
University of Western Australia. His research interests include the design of agrienvironmental policy, environmental policy for mines and crop biosecurity. His
publications include introductory and graduate textbooks on environmental economics
with Nick Hanley and Jay Shogren.
books and ~130 articles and book chapters. Has advised small-scale PES initiatives and
government programs, especially in Latin America, on design of PES instruments.
Tobias WÜNSCHER
ZEF-University of Bonn, Germany
tobias.wuenscher@uni-bonn.de
Dr. Tobias Wünscher is a senior agricultural economist at the Center for Development
Research (ZEF), University of Bonn where he also obtained his PhD. He has worked on
mechanisms to enhance the targeting of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Costa
Rica, has conducted experimental studies on the design of conservation auctions and
communal natural resource management in Kenya as well as innovative taxation schemes
in Indonesia. Other research foci include locally evolved farmer innovations and climate
change adaptation.
Stuart WHITTEN
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia
stuart.whitten@csiro.au
Dr Whitten is an environmental and institutional economist at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences,
Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales, and has more
than 20 journal publications, mainly in the field of market‐based instrument design and
implementation. He has held key roles in the design and delivery of a wide range of
markets for ecosystem services. Recently he has evaluated and redesigned the metric of the
Australian Government’s Environmental Stewardship Program (a conservation tender),
piloted a conservation tender paying for outputs, and authored major reports helping shape
a national wildlife corridor plan for Australia.
Sven WUNDER
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Brazil
s.wunder@cgiar.org
Ma. in Economics, PhD in macroeconomics, DSc (habil) in forest economics (University
of Copenhagen). Has worked for Danida (Denmark), IUCN (Ecuador), CDR (Denmark);
since 2000 for CIFOR, first in Indonesia (HQ), and since 2004 in Brazil (Belem, Rio de
Janeiro). Currently principal economist, and Head of CIFOR´s Brazil office. Since 2011,
honorary professor at University of Copenhagen. Main work areas: payments for
environmental services (PES), deforestation, and forest-poverty linkages. Published 10
Sponsored by the OECD Co‐operative Research Programme (CRP) With the support of and