Professor Michael Obersteiner
Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Interests:
Biophysical modelling in the areas of ecosystems, forestry and agriculture, economics, finance and integrated assessment.
Biography:
Michael is Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. He was previously Director of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He joined the IIASA Forestry Program in 1993 and has been leading and developing the ESM Program since 2011.
Professor Obersteiner's background includes the fields of global terrestrial ecosystems and economics, having completed graduate studies in Austria (BOKU University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna); and at Columbia University, New York; and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk.