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Professor Frank CONVERY
University College Dublin, Ireland

Prof. Frank Convery University College Dublin Richview, Clonskeagh Dublin 14 94305-1050 Ireland Tel: +353 1 7162775/2756 Fax: +353 1 2837009 E-mail: frank.convery@ucd.ie URL: http://www.ucdenvironmentalstudies.com

Professor Frank Convery, is Heritage Trust professor of Environmental Policy, and Director of Urban Institute Ireland , University College Dublin (NUID- UCD). He has a long history in European environmental economics and policy work and has been involved in numerous successful European research projects, including as co-ordinator of the ten-member network CATEP (Concerted Action on Emissions Trading – 5 th Framework), and CAMBI (Market based instruments – 5 th Framework), and partner in CAVA (Voluntary Agreements – 4 th Framework). As a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) he chaired the committee overseeing the reports the Agency commissioned and published on the uses of environmental taxation and voluntary approaches in environmental policy. In the forthcoming report by the EEA on the use of economic instruments, he lead the team addressing emissions trading, and provided input to the chapter on taxation. He leads a Irish group which is part of a consortium advising the Cabinet office of the Government of Japan on strategies to address the challenges posed by the Kyoto Protocol, with specific reference to the mobilisation of market instruments. He is President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and a member of the High Level Group of Economists chaired jointly by Catherine Day, Director General, Environment, and Jacqui McGlade, Director of the European Environment Agency. He is a member of the Working Group on the Revision of National Emission Ceilings (NEC) and Policy Instruments, tasked with advising the Commission on the revision of the NEC Directive. He is chairperson of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and a member of the board of the Irish National Roads Authority.