Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is a world-renowned environmental economics professor and global leader in sustainable development. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. She is listed in the most-cited women economists in the world, with 15 published books and more than 450 published peer reviewed scientific papers. Since 1997, she has coordinated more than 100 interdisciplinary research projects.

Phoebe Koundouri is Professor at the School of Economics and Director of Research laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES) at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Professor at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at Denmark Technical University (DTU), Director of the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) and the EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece at ATHENA Research Center, President of the European Scientific Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (EAERE), Member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS), Member of the Academia Europae, Member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences. She is also Chair of the SDSN Global Climate Hub, co-chair of SDSN Europe & SDSN Greece. She is member of the National Climate Change Committee of Greece, of the Ministry of Energy and the Environment, Member of the writing team of the Pissarides Report (10 year Greek Development Plan). She is the President of the Alliance of Excellence for Research and Innovation on Aephoria (AE4RIA).

Prof. Koundouri is one of the Commissioners of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19 for which she co-chairs the "Jobs-based Green Recovery” Task Force. She leads the UN SDSN Senior Working Group on "Transformation Pathways for the implementation of EGD and the SDGs,co-leads the UN SDSN Sustainable Shipping and Ports and Shipping Initiative, and the UN SDSN 4-seas Blue Growth Initiative.

Prof. Koundouri acts as a scientific advisor to the European Commission,World Bank, EBRD, OECD, UN, NATO, WHO, as well as national governments around the world, as well as chair or member of numerous European and International Scientific, Research and Policy Boards and Committees.

She has received various prizes for academic excellence, including best paper awards, highest policy impact paper award, European Research Project award, etc. as well as the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (2020-2027).