Salman Hussain

Dr. Salman Hussain is coordinator for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), and acting Head of the Ecosystem Services Economics Unit. Before joining UN Environment, Salman was with Scotland's Rural College, where he directed the University of Edinburgh's Masters programme in Ecological Economics and headed a team focusing on marine ecosystem economics. He was a contributing author to the TEEB reports launched in 2010. His PhD was on the economics of the 'greening' of industry, with a specific emphasis on eco-innovations and eco-labelling, but his research for the past decade has focused on ecosystem economics. He joined UN Environment in 2014. Since then, TEEB has developed the highly innovative and influential Agriculture and Food (TEEBAgriFood) work stream, in collaboration with inter alia the FAO, the CGIAR network the Natural Capital Coalition. TEEB is also co-implementing - with the UN Statistical Division - the application of macro accounting, i.e. the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA).