Dr. Shaikh Eskander is an environmental economist with research expertise in climate and energy policy and sustainable development. His influential research on climate policy has appeared on journals like Environmental & Resource Economics, Nature Climate Change, NBER, World Development, Journal of Cleaner Production, Land Economics and Ecological Economics; and he has extensive consulting experience with international organizations like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the UNDP. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Kingston University and a visiting fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. He also has external research affiliations with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at Australian National University, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability at Monash University, and the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University.