Ece Ozdemiroglu

Ece Ozdemiroglu, the founding director of eftec, specialises in interpreting economic value evidence for policy and decision making and evaluation. This involves applying ecosystem services approach and economic valuation to environmental resources, cultural heritage, charitable sector, value of information and education.

Since 1992, Ece has worked on over 270 projects, the majority of which she has managed or directed, including several large scale infrastructure and policy reform studies across a wide range of environmental topics and economic sectors, for public and private sector and NGO clients.

Her clients include most UK government departments, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and the governments of Turkey, the Netherlands, South Africa, PR of China, Mongolia and Mexico among others. She has co-edited or co-authored 11 books and contributed to several articles and conference papers including being a contributing author of the TEEB report. Her last book (with Dr Paul Hardisty) concerns the utilisation of economic analysis for making decisions about cleaning contaminated groundwater. The book, entitled “Economics of Groundwater Remediation and Protection” is targeted to technical experts working on remediation projects and is published by CRC Press in the US.

Her next book (with Josh Lipton and David Chapman, forthcoming in 2012 by Springer) will be on the use of resource equivalency (including economic valuation) methods for assessing environmental damage and liability and selecting the appropriate compensation measures. This will help with better implementation of the European Directives of Habitats, Wild Birds and Environmental Liability as well as input to new policy instruments like biodiversity offsetting, payments for ecosystem services and habitat banking.

Outside eftec, she is a Steering Group Member for the Natural Capital Initiative, a member of the International Consulting Economists Association and the UK Network for Environmental Economists and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ece studied Economics at Istanbul University and Environmental and Resource Economics at University College London. She works in English and Turkish.

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