Dr. Rob Tinch

Dr. Rob Tinch joined eftec in April 2008 as its representative in Brussels. He has 14 years' experience in environmental and ecological economics, including as an economic assistant at the Department of Transport, a previous core-team position at eftec, and a lectureship in the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA.

He is also a director of Environmental Futures Ltd and is actively involved in the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy.

Rob has worked on a large number of consultancy and research projects, focusing on environmental valuation and biodiversity issues, and also on energy, waste and transport. His main research and consultancy interests are based around methods of supporting decision-making and environmental policy formation under conditions of uncertainty, using a range of techniques. Recently he has been working on stakeholder integration in the RUBICODE project (with Median SCP, www.rubicode.net), on rural innovation (with Environmental Futures, www.rapido-fp6.eu) and with eftec on valuation and project appraisal issues for managed realignment schemes and on environmental comparison of land and marine aggregates.

Rob holds a BA in Economics from the University of York, an MSc in Environmental Economics from University College London and a PhD "Resilience and Management of Stochastic Renewable Resource Systems" from the University of York. He is based in Brussels and works in English and French.

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