Thomas Nils Samuel Sterner (born 22 March 1952) is a Swedish economist and a professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

These publications include applications to energy, climate, industry, transport economics and resource management in developing countries.

[1] He speaks Swedish, English, French, Spanish, German and possesses beginner’s efforts in Italian and Swahili.

[1] Thomas Sterner is the Head of the Environmental Economics Unit and one of the founders of the Environment for Development Initiative in Gothenburg.

He is a part of several boards, including several of the large environmental economics research groups in Europe: Mercator Research Institute in Potsdam, Chaire Economie du Climat at the University Paris Dauphine, and Climate Econometrics at Oxford, as well as the Council on French Sovereign Green bonds, French Government.