Chief Economist

Environmental Defense, New York, USA

Dr. Dudek was appointed Chief Economist of Environmental Defense, New York, USA since 2002. He has taken several important positions and consulted many governments, organizations and NGOs.

From 1989 to 2004, he was Board member of Keystone Center, Energy Trustees Board; from 1995 to 2002, he was Advisor of Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; from 1996 to 2004,he was Director of the Environmental Resources Trust, Inc., Board of Directors. Since 2003, he became Senior Consultant of the China Association for the Promotion of the Economy in Ethnic Regions, Member of the Advisory Board, Clean Energy Research and Education Center in Tsinghua University, and Senior Advisor of the China Association for Nongovernmental Organization Cooperation; since 2004, he was Associate Editor, Research of Environmental Sciences, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science; since 2005, he was Advisor of the Policy Research Center, SEPA, China; Since 2007, he became Member of the Governor’s Market Advisory Committee, California Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Dudek was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He received his B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1973. In 1975, he received his M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis. He was awarded his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis in 1979 with major fields of operations research and environmental economics.