Ece Ozdemiroglu
Founding Director
Ece Özdemiroğlu FRSA, is the Founding Director of eftec. She is a Member of the Adaptation Committee of the Committee on Climate Change and the convener of the British Standards Institute’s Assessing and Valuing Natural Capital expert group (SES/1/1/2) currently writing a standard on natural capital accounting.
Ece is an environmental economist specialising in valuing natural capital assets and using this evidence in accounting and appraisal. Her work also includes cultural heritage and value of information. Her clients include most UK government departments, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the governments of many countries, local authorities and forward thinking businesses.
Ece is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy and has co-edited or co-authored 11 books. Her latest book (with Josh Lipton, David Chapman, and Jennifer Peers (eds)) came out in March 2018 by Springer and is on the use of resource equivalency (including economic valuation) methods for assessing environmental damage and liability and selecting the appropriate compensation measures.
Ece holds an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London and a BA in Economics from Istanbul University; she works in both English and Turkish.
