Ian Bateman

Ian Bateman OBE US-NAS FBA FEAERE FRSA FRSB (born 1961) is a professor of environmental economics at the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute at the University of Exeter.

He is chief editor of the journal "Environmental and Resource Economics".

He was formerly a member of the Natural Capital Committee, a member of the Defra Science Advisory Council, and director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE).

He was the Principal Investigator of the ESRC Large Grant: Social, Economic and Environmental Research (SEER) and of the NERC Valuing Nature Network (VNN).

Ian Bateman was appointed an OBE for services to environmental science and policy 2013 and he also received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for 2011-2016.