Degrees

M.Sc., London School of Economics; PhD, Harvard University

About

Dr. Repetto's area of expertise is environmental and resource economics. From 1998 to 2000, he held a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Until 1998 he was vice president and senior economist at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, where he authored numerous books and monographs on environmental policy. He has served on EPA's Science Advisory Board and National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, on the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development and on many NRC committees. Dr. Repetto has been a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, a World Bank official working in Indonesia, an economic advisor in Bangladesh, a Ford Foundation staff economist in India, and an economic analyst in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His work has been honored by the Society for Conservation Biology and the British Medical Association. His recent work on environment and finance was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for 2000.